reverie

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• enPR: rĕʹvə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəɹi/

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From French rêverie

reverie (countable and uncountable, plural reveries)

1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [1657]
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108

     we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.

2. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison

     If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.

• (state of dreaming while awake): air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism

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From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.

reverie (plural reveries)

1. (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment. [mid 14th Century]

reverie f (oblique plural reveries, nominative singular reverie, nominative plural reveries)

1. Alternative form of resverie

From French rêverie.

reverie f (plural reverii)

1. reverie, any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)

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