Reverie vs Stupor - What's the difference?
reverie | stupor |
A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
* 1847 , Alfred Tennyson, The Princess , Canto VII, lines 107-108
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An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
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A state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.
A state in which one has difficulty in thinking or using one’s senses.
As nouns the difference between reverie and stupor
is that reverie is daydream, reverie while stupor is a state of reduced consciousness or sensibility.reverie
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Alternative forms
* reveryEtymology 1
, of uncertain origin. Compare rave.Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie ,
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- If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both.
