reverie

Definition

A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.

Etymology

From French rêverie.

Example Sentences

• "If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!"
• "we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]"
• "Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / ⁠Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd."