revery
2
9.9
- noun
- /ˈrɛvəri/
- US
:
ensueño
- A yearning for the "good old days" infects us all, even though such times never existed outside our reveries.
We remove ourselves from our grief or from our reverie, and we go into our phones.
- We remove ourselves from our grief or from our reverie, and we go into our phones.
Examples
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What they did in their reveries, Rachel couldn't guess.
Fiction book (2001) -
I know that another long siege of insomnia awaits me, gray sleepless reveries crawling and seething with the Beasts of the World Outside.
Fiction book (1997) -
We remove ourselves from our grief or from our reverie, and we go into our phones.
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Over the course of the summer, Ruth has found herself in the thrall of these increasingly long reveries.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was so caught up in my reveries about Bucky that when the phone rang, I jumped.
Fiction book (2002) -
From the kitchen, the voices of his mother and father broke like chimes into his reveries, and the knot in his chest tightened.
Fiction book (1990) -
To this end, he dedicated himself to the writing of "reveries," a term he borrowed from Gaston Bachelard's later writing on imagination and poetics.
Academic text (2014) -
Brian wondered how many dream addicts were already out there immersing themselves in slumbering, uplinked reveries.
Fiction book (2002) -
Fifteen seconds—those impressions took to streak by, my mind overturning amidst those subliminal reveries.
Fiction book (1997) -
Lost in my revery, I failed to respond at once to his question.
Synonyms
43
2.6
Pleasant thoughts that distract you from what is happening now
15
7.5
A pleasant daydream when you are lost in thought
1
3.2
Thinking about pleasant things while not paying attention
Lost in daydreams and not paying attention
Antonyms
How Absorbed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Revery comes from the French verb rêver, which means 'to dream' or 'to wander in the mind', and it is the same word as reverie. So a revery is like a small waking dream when your thoughts drift away.