as in dreams
a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
hoped that one day world peace would be a reality and not just a daydream
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Recent Examples of daydreams
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
23 June 2026
One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
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Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
Ethereal and naturally whimsical, this sandal is giving beach day, daydreams and romanticizing summer, which is very Pisces.
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Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
The heady scent—a mix of white florals, amber, and sandalwood—induces daydreams of tanning on a white-sand beach.
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Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
27 May 2026
Some stories plant deep in your creative brain and come out through songs heard on the radio and random daydreams in the shower.
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Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.
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Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
The family car is a Mazda, but Zac daydreams of a Bugatti Veyron.
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Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
More than masturbatory daydreams, Vladimir inspires our heroine to write with abandon, ignoring professional and personal obligations in service to her muse.
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Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.
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Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
23 June 2026
One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
—
Jason Motlagh,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
Ethereal and naturally whimsical, this sandal is giving beach day, daydreams and romanticizing summer, which is very Pisces.
—
Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
The heady scent—a mix of white florals, amber, and sandalwood—induces daydreams of tanning on a white-sand beach.
—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
27 May 2026
Some stories plant deep in your creative brain and come out through songs heard on the radio and random daydreams in the shower.
—
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Just think of all those vacant Madonnas, structurally perfect compositions, and obedient daydreams of antiquity.
—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
The family car is a Mazda, but Zac daydreams of a Bugatti Veyron.
—
Frank Langfitt,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
More than masturbatory daydreams, Vladimir inspires our heroine to write with abandon, ignoring professional and personal obligations in service to her muse.
—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for daydreams
Noun
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As the nation turns 250 years old, USA TODAY decided to create a time capsule, not of items but of dreams Americans hold for the country’s future.
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Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams.
Verb
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In the weeks after learning about their Michelin status, Tina fantasizes about her new life as the Chef de cuisine with her husband beside her (played by the actor’s real-life husband David Zayas).
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Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
Noun
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For this dourest of doubters, Musk’s claims for the feats ahead can only happen in the SpaceX founder’s head, or in the sci-fi fantasies Eisman grew up on.
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Circe and Calypso, for instance, are fantasies of pleasure and captivity, projections of men’s fear of losing control; Odysseus’ abandonment of them is part of his return to command.
Verb
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On the one hand, Ramsay fancies himself as a footballer.
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When the dreams start bleeding into real life, Charlie — who fancies himself an amateur detective — convinces his brother and friends to investigate Lorcan’s mysterious origins, a thread that soon unravels an entire secret fantasy world kept under wraps by the elders of the island.
Noun
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The man cannot help himself, visions be damned.
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The future north campus remains a contest of differing visions.
Verb
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Surprisingly, this is not entirely where the film is going; a little before the halfway mark, the Minions mess up yet again (leaving a vacuum, one imagines, the Three Stooges will soon fill).
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Bateman acknowledged that bringing a fan-favorite novel to life comes with high expectations, since every reader imagines the characters differently.
Noun
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Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
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Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.
Verb
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And while the device shoots only low-resolution, B&W still images, when combined with audio-capture and Bluetooth connection to the internet for third-party facial recognition, the threat to privacy is obvious and massive.
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And Israel has also imposed strict rules about what images citizens and journalists can and can't post online.
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