Synonyms of reverie

reverie

noun

ˈre-və-rē 

variants also revery

as in daydreaming

the state of being lost in thought

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• daydreaming
• trance
• daydream
• dream
• woolgathering
• contemplation
• study
• meditation
• vision
• musing
• abstraction
• preoccupation
• absorption
• phantasy
• unreality
• fantasy
• hallucination
• absentmindedness
• delusion
• illusion
• phantasm
• pipe dream
• figment
• chimera
• conceit
• fantasm
• fancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reverie

The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie. —Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025

Adrift in a 1990s-esque dream-pop reverie, Uchis coasts through a tunnel of love, her ethereal voice cradled by reverberations of electric guitars. —Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025

This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see — until a woman appears. —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 May 2025

Handheld digital images give way to more solemn documentary reveries, which give way to surveillance footage and TikTok-style social media interludes. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 17 May 2025