variants
or less commonly revery
plural reveries
1
: daydream
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
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I was lost in reverie and didn't realize my flight was boarding until it was almost too late.
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But my post-summit reverie was broken by a nightmare scenario: a trail-crew looking up from their work to judge me.
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 2 Jan. 2025
In Sewing Machine, 2000, the mechanism’s operator—this time male—seems not to be sewing at all, but conducting some kind of shamanistic ritual that sends the other figures populating the painting’s hallucinatory space into their own incommensurable realms of reverie.
—Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Poetry Summer as Erasure Helen Guri Poet Anne Simpson writes a heatwave as a reverie.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
The result is a film whose formal audacity is matched by its moral seriousness, examining America’s Jim Crow era through casually searing images interwoven with poetic reveries and archival footage, our nation’s raw-wound present connected to an inescapable past.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 2 Jan. 2025
In Sewing Machine, 2000, the mechanism’s operator—this time male—seems not to be sewing at all, but conducting some kind of shamanistic ritual that sends the other figures populating the painting’s hallucinatory space into their own incommensurable realms of reverie.
—Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Poetry Summer as Erasure Helen Guri Poet Anne Simpson writes a heatwave as a reverie.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
The result is a film whose formal audacity is matched by its moral seriousness, examining America’s Jim Crow era through casually searing images interwoven with poetic reveries and archival footage, our nation’s raw-wound present connected to an inescapable past.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Reverie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverie. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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reverie
noun
rev·er·ie
variants
also revery
plural reveries
1
2
: the condition of being lost in thought
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