Synonyms of reverie

reverie

noun

ˈre-və-rē 

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reverie

By showing kids in moments of reverie, Price aims to preserve and protect forms of childhood that are routinely eroded in hyper-violent and over-policed environments. — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2026

Here, though, lovely poetic imagery is scrambled with old and alternate timelines, sending the reverie in unanticipated and often comic directions. — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

Thomas begins to confuse his young mentee and interviewer with his own son, mixing fragments of family wounds and recriminations into his reverie, as if he’s forgotten that he’s being interviewed. — Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026

Both human and artificial, and tantalizingly difficult to parse, the screams puncture the track’s otherwise steamy atmosphere, like a reminder of reality in the middle of a dreamy reverie. — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 24 June 2026