Meaning & use
reveries
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States of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; daydreams.
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She was pulled from her reveries by the ringing phone.
His childhood reveries often centered on long summers at the lake.
A note on using this word
From French rêverie, related to 'rave'; it entered English in the 17th century to describe absent-minded, dreamy thought.
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daydreamsmusingsfantasies
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