variants
also revery
as in trance
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
This time, the soloist was the stellar emerging pianist Yunchan Lim, who keeps to himself, either lost in dreamy reverie or, like a jumpy teenager, in ferocious attack mode.
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Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Suddenly a crowd is just there, vibrating to the sounds in ecstatic reverie.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Some writers are naturally drawn to this kind of reverie.
—Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The victim of his sacrifice is Gretchen, a virgin whom Faust seduces and abandons in his devilish reverie, and who kills their illegitimate child.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Suddenly a crowd is just there, vibrating to the sounds in ecstatic reverie.
—ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
Some writers are naturally drawn to this kind of reverie.
—Erin Somers, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
The victim of his sacrifice is Gretchen, a virgin whom Faust seduces and abandons in his devilish reverie, and who kills their illegitimate child.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for reverie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reverie
Noun
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In that film, unassuming victims are put into a hypnotic trance by a psychic killer to then do his murdering for him, only for that violence to become even more contagious.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
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Then, the repetitive descending melody is interrupted and restarts; in this musical rupture the trance is broken.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
5 Mar. 2026
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These cuts enable us to spend more time daydreaming and less time in the salon.—
Loren Savini,
Allure,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Reverie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reverie. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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