variants
also revery
as in trance
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
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Recent Examples of reverie
This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.
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Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Suddenly a crowd is just there, vibrating to the sounds in ecstatic reverie.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Some writers are naturally drawn to this kind of reverie.
—Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The victim of his sacrifice is Gretchen, a virgin whom Faust seduces and abandons in his devilish reverie, and who kills their illegitimate child.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Suddenly a crowd is just there, vibrating to the sounds in ecstatic reverie.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Some writers are naturally drawn to this kind of reverie.
—Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The victim of his sacrifice is Gretchen, a virgin whom Faust seduces and abandons in his devilish reverie, and who kills their illegitimate child.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reverie
Noun
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At the packed opening, a huge screen showed Abramović’s video work, Tito’s Funeral (2025), broadcasting women beating their chests in a near trance-like state, drawing on ritualised forms of communal mourning.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Sound, light, and vibration/ Reshape our perceptions/ Pulling us into a trance-like state.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Nothing wrong with idealizing and daydreaming, but to a certain extent.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Reverie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverie. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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