Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of reverie But go back again, and again, and again, and these songs continually reveal new charms, emerging and receding in the swirling guitars that soar and echo around singer Molly Rankin’s elliptical, panoramic reveries. —

Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024 Read more: The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades Because Dog and Robot's city reverie is short-lived. —

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 31 May 2024 And she is frequently lost in reveries, revisiting her most famous performances. —

Radhika Seth, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2024 These include a reverie from Martha over her first love in the 1970s, a Vietnam War veteran taken down in operatically tragic fashion by a PTSD hallucination that led him into a burning building. —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reverie