Synonyms of reveries

reveries

noun

plural of reverie

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• trances
• daydreams
• studies
• contemplations
• dreams
• meditations
• visions
• musings
• woolgatherings
• preoccupations
• absorptions
• abstractions
• fantasies
• unrealities
• illusions
• hallucinations
• delusions
• chimeras
• phantasms
• conceits
• figments
• pipe dreams
• fancies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reveries

Her adultery story initially evokes the imprisoned girl’s compensatory reveries, but over time its focus shifts. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Track six, on the other hand, recalls the plangent reveries of ’90s IDM artists like Arovane. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026

The two actors rarely share a scene together, the floor between their apartments providing a barrier to human connection, and the musical reveries become a means of escape from a dying world. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 July 2026

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. — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026

Similar speculations arose from the reveries of Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorov. — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

The dismantling of Willy in his son’s eyes is almost as sad as the brief flashes of honest self-disgust that interrupt his father’s reveries. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019