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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, charmed, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreamery, dreamful, dreamfulness, dreaminess, dreamlike, dreamlikeness, dreamy, dreamy-eyed, dreamy-souled, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, enchanted, engrossed, engrossment, entranced, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, half-awake, in a reverie, in a trance, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pensiveness, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie, somewhere else, spellbound, spelled, stargazing, study, taken up, trance, tranced, transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped in thought

Dictionary Results for dreaming:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

dreaming
    n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in
         a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream,
         dreaming]
    2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during
       sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream,
       dreaming]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dr[=e]md) or
   Dreamt (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS.
   dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]
   1. To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of
      sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of;
      as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
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   2. To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to
      anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have
      a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
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            Here may we sit and dream
            Over the heavenly theme.              --Keble.
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            They dream on in a constant course of reading, but
            not digesting.                        --Locke.
      [1913 Webster]

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