A reverie is a daydream or a state of being lost in thought, often involving pleasant and fanciful ideas. It can also refer to a lighthearted, imaginative composition or piece of writing that describes an idealized scene or situation.
Usage examples
She spent her Sunday afternoon in a peaceful reverie, gazing out of her window at the beautiful sunset.
Lost in reverie, he sat in the park for hours, completely unaware of the world around him.
As she listened to the soft melody, she drifted into a dreamy reverie, reliving fond memories of her childhood.
The artist painted with an intense focus, often entering into a creative reverie where time seemed to stand still.
While waiting for her flight, she indulged in a reverie, imagining the adventures that awaited her in the tropical paradise she was about to visit.
The elderly man sat in his rocking chair, smiling to himself in a reverie as he reminisced about the good old days.
Surrounded by nature, she found solace in the peacefulness of her own thoughts, engaging in deep reverie as she wandered through the forest.
The poet's words transported his readers into a world of enchanting reverie, where dreams and reality blended seamlessly.
He closed his eyes, reclined on the beach chair, and let the sounds of the ocean lull him into a relaxing reverie.
The scent of freshly baked bread wafted through the kitchen, triggering a delightful reverie that transported her back to her grandmother's warm embrace.
To my mind, Rauch is fascinating as an example of a figurative painter who was schooled and still practices in the former East (he lives in Leipzig); his work really suggests a kind of belated reverie of how great Eastern - bloc painting might have been. (artinamericamagazine.com)
The artists featured in the exhibition In Reverie of Form tackle subjects of flora, fauna, and the human body, to examine various phenomena with their representations. (artfixdaily.com)
Turning an unadaptable work of postmodern literature into an incandescent cinematic reverie on love's follies as a quick side project could have been a masturbatory exercise in intellectualism, but Denis finds the inexorable beauty (and sadness) in that most corrosive and fugacious of feelings. (slantmagazine.com)