daydream

daydream
1. noun
1)

she was lost in a daydream

Syn:
(a) reverie, a trance, (a) fantasy, a vision, fancy, (a) brown study; inattentiveness, woolgathering, preoccupation, absorption, self-absorption, absentmindedness, abstraction
2)

winning the lottery is just a daydream

Syn:
a dream, a pipe dream, a fantasy, a castle in the air, a fond hope; wishful thinking; informal pie in the sky
2. verb

stop daydreaming!

Syn:
dream, muse, stare into space; fantasize, build castles in the air

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