as in trances
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 reveries
Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.
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Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Similar speculations arose from the reveries of Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Similar speculations arose from the reveries of Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Reveries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reveries. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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