different between daydream vs vagary

English

Etymology

day +? dream

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?d?i?m/
• enPR: d?'dr?m?

Noun

daydream (plural daydreams)

1. A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts while awake not connected to immediate reality.

   Coordinate terms: woolgathering, brown study, castles in Spain

Translations

Verb

daydream (third-person singular simple present daydreams, present participle daydreaming, simple past and past participle daydreamt or daydreamed)

1. To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.

   Stop daydreaming and get back to work!

Translations

See also

• daymare
• dream
• nightmare
• REM

English

Etymology

From Latin vagus (“wandering”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, formerly) IPA^(key): /v?????i/
• (General American, now commonly) IPA^(key): /?ve????i/

Noun

vagary (plural vagaries)

1. An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies, ch. 8:

     It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
2. An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:whim

   • 1905, Jack London, War of the Classes, Preface:

     And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

Derived terms

• vagarity
• vagarious

Related terms

• vague
• vagrant
• vagabond

Translations

See also

• vaguery

Anagrams

• Varyag