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Daydream vs Vagary - What's the difference?

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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

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.
  • Verb

  • To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
  • Stop daydreaming and get back to work!

    See also

    * dream * nightmare * REM

    vagary

    English

    Noun

    (vagaries)
  • An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
  • * 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
  • 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.
  • An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
  • * 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
  • And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

    Derived terms

    * vagarity * vagarious

    See also

    * vaguery