REVERIE

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abstracted state of absorption

Synonyms:

reverie; revery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reverie" is a kind of...):

abstractedness; abstraction (preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reverie"):

dream (a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality)

brown study (a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Absentminded dreaming while awake

Synonyms:

air castle; castle in Spain; castle in the air; daydream; daydreaming; oneirism; reverie; revery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reverie" is a kind of...):

dream; dreaming (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake)

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Context examples:

Her resistance had not injured her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some complacency, when thus accosted by Miss Bingley: I can guess the subject of your reverie.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A reverie succeeded this conviction—and when Isabella spoke again, it was to resolve on the quality of her wedding-gown.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Helen sighed as her reverie fled, and getting up, obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches on his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions which I put to him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The result of his reverie was, “No, Emma, I do not think the extent of my admiration for her will ever take me by surprize. I never had a thought of her in that way, I assure you.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“What was it then?” asked Alleyne, coming with a start out of his reverie.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then she sighed, and fell into a reverie from which she did not wake till the early twilight sent her down to take new observations, which only confirmed her suspicion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Perhaps you cannot yourself recall how your reverie commenced?