Synonyms of 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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of reverie

But no space seals her nostalgic reverie quite like the primary closet. —Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024

When the shrill whine of a bell interrupts the constructed reverie, a more realistic scene comes into focus: Two men rush to button up their shirts and resume their work. —Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Stiles didn’t mind revealing the shiny shards of his bohemian rhapsody in a barstool reverie. —Damian Panetta, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024

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