Thesaurus results for REVERY

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 In Sewing Machine, 2000, the mechanism’s operator—this time male—seems not to be sewing at all, but conducting some kind of shamanistic ritual that sends the other figures populating the painting’s hallucinatory space into their own incommensurable realms of reverie. —

Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025 Poetry Summer as Erasure Helen Guri Poet Anne Simpson writes a heatwave as a reverie. —

Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025 The result is a film whose formal audacity is matched by its moral seriousness, examining America’s Jim Crow era through casually searing images interwoven with poetic reveries and archival footage, our nation’s raw-wound present connected to an inescapable past. —

Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024 She was startled out of her reverie—a strange erotic daydream, flesh without body, warmth without a face. —

Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reverie