Daydream vs Divagation - What's the difference?
daydream | divagation |
A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
straying off from a course or way
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame....
As nouns the difference between daydream and divagation
is that daydream is a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality while divagation is straying off from a course or way.As a verb daydream
is to have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.daydream
English
(wikipedia daydream)Noun
(en noun)Verb
- Stop daydreaming and get back to work!