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

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

The way the film swims through the contradictions, considerations, and cultural reverie of the rural South is genuinely enlivening. —Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025

Featuring private guest balconies, hammocks, and lush foliage throughout the five-acre property, Parrot Key offers a restful escape from the Key West reverie. —Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2025

Meanwhile, flashes of signs and fleeting memories — and, sometimes, ink-blot tests and medical questionnaires and test-answer forms — interrupt Maria’s reveries. —Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025