reverieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• rêverie
• revery

発音

• enPR: rĕʹvə-rē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəɹi/

語源 1

From French rêverie.

名詞

reverie (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 reveries)

1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [from 1657]
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 77:

     If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!

   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108

     we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]

   • 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Day-Dream”, in Pictures & poems:

     Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / ⁠Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd.

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name)‎^[2]:

     Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.

   Synonyms: castles in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism

2. An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
   • November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225

     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 , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .

参考

• build castles in the air
• woolgather

語源 2

From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.

名詞

reverie (複数形 reveries)

1. (archaic) A caper, a frolic; merriment. [mid 14th Century]

Further reading

• daydream on Wikipedia.