different between deference vs reverie

English

Etymology

From French déférence

Morphologically defer +? -ence.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?f???ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?.f?.?ns/, /?d?.f??ns/

Noun

deference (countable and uncountable, plural deferences)

1. Great respect.

   The children treated their elders with deference.

2. The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.

   By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.

Synonyms

• honor
• respect

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• rêverie
• revery

Pronunciation

• enPR: r??v?-r?, IPA^(key): /???v??i/

Etymology 1

From French rêverie.

Noun

reverie (countable and uncountable, plural reveries)

1. A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream. [from 1657]

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

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

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

Translations

See also

• build castles in the air
• woolgather

Etymology 2

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

Noun

reverie (plural reveries)

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

Further reading

• daydream on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old French

Noun

reverie f (oblique plural reveries, nominative singular reverie, nominative plural reveries)

1. Alternative form of resverie

Romanian

Etymology

From French rêverie.

Noun

reverie f (plural reverii)

1. reverie, any form of dreaming (e.g. daydreaming, dreaming, and thinking)

Declension

See also

• visare