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daydream noun [ ˈdeɪdriːm ]

• a series of pleasant thoughts that distract one's attention from the present.
• "she was lost in a daydream"
Similar: reverie, trance, fantasy, vision, fancy, hallucination, musing, brown study, imagining, inattention, inattentiveness, wool-gathering, preoccupation, brooding, obliviousness, engrossment, absorption, self-absorption, absent-mindedness, absence of mind, staring into space, abstraction, lack of concentration, lack of application, dwam, blonde moment, dream, pipe dream, figment of the imagination, unrealizable dream, castle in the air, castle in Spain, wishful thinking, fond hopes, wishes, pie in the sky,
Opposite: concentration,

daydream verb

• indulge in a daydream.
• "stop daydreaming and pay attention"
Similar: dream, muse, be lost in thought, be in a brown study, stare into space, hallucinate, fantasize, indulge in fantasy, indulge in fancy, indulge in wool-gathering, be in cloud cuckoo land, be unrealistic, build castles in the air, build castles in Spain,
Opposite: concentrate, focus,


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