Dictionary Definition
daydream n : absent-minded dreaming while awake
[syn: reverie, revery, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle,
castle
in the air, castle in
Spain]
Verb
2 have dreamlike musings or fantasies while
awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: moon]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts not connected to immediate reality.
Translations
A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts
- Dutch: dagdroom
- French: rêverie
- German: Tagtraum
- Hebrew: חלום בהקיץ (khalom be'haqytz)
- Icelandic: dagdraumur, dagdreymi
- Russian: мечта
Verb
- To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!
Translations
To have such a series of thoughts
- Chinese: 白日梦
- Dutch: dagdromen
- French: rêvasser
- German: tagträumen
- Hebrew: לחלום בהקיץ (lakhlom be'haqytz)
- Russian: мечтать
- Spanish: soñar despierto(a)
Extensive Definition
A daydream is a visionary fantasy
experienced while awake, especially one of happy, pleasant
thoughts, hopes, or ambitions. There are so many different types of
daydreaming that there is still no consensus definition amongst
psychologists.
See also
External links
- Positive effects of daydreaming
- Daydreaming improves thinking (Cosmos Magazine)
References
daydream in Arabic: أحلام اليقظة
daydream in Japanese: 白昼夢
daydream in Norwegian: Dagdrøm
daydream in Polish: Marzenia dzienne
daydream in Russian: Мечта
daydream in Swedish: Dagdröm
daydream in Ukrainian: Мрія
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness,
absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, airy nothing,
autism, bad dream, be
absent, bemusement,
brown study, bubble,
castle-building, chimera, conceiving, daydreamer, daydreaming, deception, deluded belief,
delusion, depth of
thought, dereism,
divagate, dream, dream of, dream vision,
dreaming, dreamland, dreamworld, engrossment, false belief,
fantasy, fantasying, fit of
abstraction, freak out, go woolgathering, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagination, imagining, incubus, misbelief, misconception, moon, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, nightmare, nostalgia, phantasm, pipe dream,
pipe-dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, reverie, self-deceit,
self-deception, self-delusion, stargaze, stargazing, stray, study, trance, trick, trip, vapor, vision, wander, wishful thinking,
wishfulness, wistful
eye, wistfulness,
woolgathering,
wrong impression, yearnfulness