Other forms: reveries
A reverie is a pleasant daydream you drift into. Lost in reverie, broke his reverie, a pleasant reverie.
It is drifted into rather than chosen, which is what separates it from thinking. The standard phrases are all about interruption, since a reverie is nearly always mentioned at the moment it is broken.
1nounreverieA pleasant daydream you drift into.
“He sat by the window in a happy reverie, dreaming of his summer holiday.”
reverie is a daydream.
Old French resverie comes from resver, to dream or rave, of uncertain origin.
French
rêverie
English, today
reverie
Borrowed from French rêverie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA