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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dey-dreem |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdeɪˌdrim |
Definition of daydreaming
Origin :- 1680s, from day + dream (n.). As a verb, attested from 1820. Related: Daydreamer; daydreaming.
- noun absentmindedness
- Even his masters admitted that, when they weren't carping at him for his daydreaming.
- Extract from : « Runaway » by William Morrison
- Before books came into my life, I was given to stargazing and daydreaming.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- His daydreaming was interrupted by Captain Jack's commanding voice.
- Extract from : « Lady Luck » by Hugh Wiley
- But Madame Porvis couldn't have told that in her daydreaming.
- Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- They did not know I was not a daydreaming child but a man who told truth.
- Extract from : « Mex » by William Logan
- Daydreaming is a sort of play, more distinctly imaginative than most other play.
- Extract from : « Psychology » by Robert S. Woodworth
- Soon he tired of daydreaming and stared stonily out of the window.
- Extract from : « The Black Fawn » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- The daydreaming is rebelled against as foolish, as puerile, as futile.
- Extract from : « The Nervous Housewife » by Abraham Myerson
- All daydreaming builds this air castle; all ambition has this as its goal.
- Extract from : « The Nervous Housewife » by Abraham Myerson
- Her daydreaming was erotic, but romantically so, not realistic.
- Extract from : « The Nervous Housewife » by Abraham Myerson
Synonyms for daydreaming
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