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reverie

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rev⋅er⋅ie

  [rev-uh-ree]
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–noun
1. a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing: lost in reverie.
2. a daydream.
3. a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea: reveries that will never come to fruition.
4. Music. an instrumental composition of a vague and dreamy character.
Also, revery.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < OF reverie, deriv. of rever to speak wildly. See rave, -ery

Synonyms:
1. abstraction, brown study.
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rev·er·ie   (rěv'ə-rē)   
n.  

  1. A state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.

  2. A daydream: "I felt caught up in a reverie of years long past" (William Styron).


[Middle English, revelry, from Old French, from rever, to dream.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

reverie 
c.1366, "wild conduct, frolic," from O.Fr. reverie "revelry, raving, delirium," from resver "to dream, wander, rave," of uncertain origin (also the root of rave). Meaning "daydream" is first attested 1657. As a type of musical composition, it is attested from 1880.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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