Associations to the word «Reverie»

Wiktionary

REVERIE, noun. (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment.
REVERIE, noun. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
REVERIE, noun. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.

Dictionary definition

REVERIE, noun. Absentminded dreaming while awake.
REVERIE, noun. An abstracted state of absorption.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats