reverie

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noun rev·er·ie \ˈre-və-rē, ˈrev-rē\

variants: or less commonly

revery

Definition of reverie

plural

reveries

1 : daydream
2 : the condition of being lost in thought

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Examples of reverie in a Sentence

I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.

Recent Examples of reverie from the Web

From outdoor reveries to power brows to expertly executed cat eyes, this week's best beauty Instagrams featured a few of our favorite things.

— calin van paris, Vogue, "The 10 Best Beauty Instagrams: Kendall Jenner Masters a Parisian Pout and More!," 9 July 2017
Della’s recurring reveries of her upcoming reality TV stint add an amusingly surreal touch, as the show’s celebrity judge (voiced with suitable British snark by Morrison Keddie) criticizes more than her baking skills.

— philip brandes, latimes.com, "A Christian conservative baker, a gay wedding and the smart, funny play 'The Cake'," 5 July 2017
Much of his music, especially his salon music, are reveries d’amour.

— patrick neas, kansascity.com, "For new Summerfest chamber music season, intermission is out, multimedia is in," 24 June 2017
Fortunately no one shatters the illusion or interrupts Singh's psychedelic reverie.

— matt peckham, Time, "Playing 'Super Mario' in Augmented Reality Looks Dangerous and Delightful," 23 June 2017
Like the images, the writing here is often dramatically cropped, offering fragments in lieu of extended arguments and reveries.

— colin dickey, latimes.com, "Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in 'Blind Spot'," 15 June 2017
Sanchez gives two mesmerizing performances in one, and has the preternatural ability to switch seamlessly between Ceci’s twisted body and inchoate speech, and her pre-crash physicality and verbal reveries.

— misha berson, The Seattle Times, "Review: In ‘Lydia,’ borders imagined and real," 8 June 2017
In that rustic clearing at Sleepy Hollow, Hawthorne fell into a kind of a rapturous reverie, a spell.

— Longreads, "A Heart That Watches and Receives," 6 June 2017
But Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary on the Grateful Dead is an epic, and one that should not be dismissed by eye-rolling millennials as just another reverie about someone else’s youth, or another solemn bout of baby boomer navel-gazing.

— john anderson, WSJ, "The Dead: Smothered by Love," 22 May 2017

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