REVERIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reverie mean? 

• REVERIE (noun)
  The noun REVERIE has 2 senses:

1. absentminded dreaming while awake

2. an abstracted state of absorption

  Familiarity information: REVERIE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Absentminded dreaming while awake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

air castle; castle in Spain; castle in the air; daydream; daydreaming; oneirism; reverie; revery

Hypernyms ("reverie" is a kind of...):

dream; dreaming (imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An abstracted state of absorption

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

reverie; revery

Hypernyms ("reverie" is a kind of...):

abstractedness; abstraction (preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reverie"):

dream (a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality)

brown study (a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness)

 Context examples 

"I thought you were going to tell your speech to that man," said Jo, rudely shortening her sister's little reverie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, this must be very bad for you, said he, suddenly rousing from a little reverie, to be coming and finding us here.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Why, Fanny, you are absolutely in a reverie.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had fallen into a reverie, with the moss-rose between his fingers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Leaning his elbows upon the stonework, he was deeply plunged in reverie, when in a moment his thoughts were brought back to Villefranche and to the scene before him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He relapsed into a silent reverie, which lasted until the slow train drew up at last in Woolwich Station.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From a reverie of this kind, as she sat at her drawing-table, she was roused one morning, soon after Edward's leaving them, by the arrival of company.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Lor, Peggotty! observed my mother, rousing herself from a reverie, what nonsense you talk!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he roused himself from his reverie.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)