different between reverie vs consternation

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

English

Etymology

From French consternation, from Latin constern?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??ne?.??n/
• (US) enPR: k?n?st?r.n?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?k?n.st??ne??.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

consternation (countable and uncountable, plural consternations)

1. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening

     "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.

   • 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 17:

     Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.

   • February 27, 2006, Chuck Klosterman in Esquire, Invention's New Mother

     It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin constern?ti?. Morphologically, from consterner +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.t??.na.sj??/

Noun

consternation f (plural consternations)

1. consternation

Further reading

• “consternation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).