Synonyms of reverie

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• daydreaming
• trance
• daydream
• dream
• woolgathering
• contemplation
• study
• meditation
• vision
• musing
• abstraction
• preoccupation
• absorption
• phantasy
• unreality
• fantasy
• hallucination
• absentmindedness
• delusion
• illusion
• phantasm
• pipe dream
• figment
• chimera
• conceit
• fantasm
• fancy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of reverie

Flores makes this explicit from the first scene, in which Neftalí puts on a piece of music that provokes an out-of-body reverie. —David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025

Make your way to the anniversary party on opening night in style with your favorite streamer’s reverie strutting through the French Quarter behind a brass band playing some familiar scores, creepy characters, and you. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025

In an early monologue, Hoffman sits at the lip of the stage describing a strange nighttime reverie among the avocado trees. —Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025

If there are plants that become drugs for humans, the more-than-human world vibrates in hallucinogenic reveries. —Photovogue, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025