reverie
/ˈɹɛvəɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
Countable; Uncountable
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, […]"
- "Your reverie is over: nothing bright can last, not even dreams; and so your figures are all gone, your fairy realm obliterated - nothing lives but the recollection of a shadow!"
- "Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd."
- "He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine."
- "Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: reverie, resverie