Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reverie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reverie \Rev"er*ie\, Revery \Rev"er*y\, n.; pl. {Reveries}. [F.
r['e]verie, fr. r[^e]ver to dream, rave, be light-headed. Cf.
{Rave}.]
1. A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing
or mediation; deep musing; daydream. ``Rapt in nameless
reveries.'' --Tennyson.
When ideas float in our mind without any reflection
or regard of the understanding, it is that which the
French call revery, our language has scarce a name
for it. --Locke.
2. An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision. [R.]
There are infinite reveries and numberless
extravagancies pass through both [wise and foolish
minds]. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reverie
n 1: absent-minded dreaming while awake [syn: {revery}, {daydream},
{daydreaming}, {oneirism}, {air castle}, {castle in the
air}, {castle in Spain}]
2: an abstracted state of absorption [syn: {revery}]
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