Daydream vs Vagary - What's the difference?
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A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
As nouns the difference between daydream and vagary
is that daydream is a spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality while vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.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!
See also
* dream * nightmare * REMvagary
English
Noun
(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.