Reverie

Noun

 * 1) A state of dreaming while awake
 * Defago looked up quickly, as from an interrupted reverie, one that had not prevented his seeing all that went on about him.

Synonyms

 * air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism

Adjectives for Reverie
dreamful; embowered; abstracted; absorbed; voluptuous; pensive; sublime; scornful; perplexed; anxious; gloomy; celestial; silent; uneasy; brief; delicious; motionless; pleasant; indignant; indefinable; blissful; intoxicating; unconscious; fantastic; enamored.

Verbs for Reverie
absorb in—; awake from—; base on—; bask in—; compose—; crack—; drift into—; en¬gage in—; envelop in—; fall into—; fashion—; float into—; imbibe in—; indulge in —; intoxicate with—; lapse into—; lose in —; pursue in—; recall in—; rouse from—; shroud in—; sink into—; start from—; steep in—; —attains; —dances; —exalts; —promises; —reflects; —revolves; —sustains.

Thesaurus
Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, amnesia, bad dream, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, catalepsy, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, close study, concentration, contemplation, contemplativeness, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daze, deep thought, depth of thought, dream, dream state, dreaming, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, fugue, fugue state, hypnotic trance, incubus, meditation, melancholy, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, pensiveness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, profound thought, reflectiveness, sleepwalking, somnambulism, speculativeness, stargazing, study, stupor, thought, thoughtfulness, trance, vision, wistfulness, woolgathering

Alternative forms

 * revery

Etymology
First attested c 14th C, “caper, frolic,” from reverie:, from resver:, of uncertain origin. Modern sense of “daydreaming” is first attested 1657.

Translations

 * Bosnian: sanjarenje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Georgian: ოცნება, ზმანება
 * Italian: sogno ad occhi aperti
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: забытьё, грёзы

Noun

 * 1) reverie, any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)

Etymology
From reverie:, from resver:, of uncertain origin.