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I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.
James Duval

Meaning of "daydreaming" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DAYDREAMING

daydreaming  [ˈdeɪˌdriːmɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DAYDREAMING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Daydreaming is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DAYDREAMING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Daydream

Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. Daydreaming gentleman in 1912 There are many types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists, however the characteristic that is common to all forms of daydreaming meets the criteria for mild dissociation.

Definition of daydreaming in the English dictionary

The definition of daydreaming in the dictionary is indulgence in reveries or fantasies; having daydreams.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DAYDREAMING


assuming
əˈsjuːmɪŋ
beaming
ˈbiːmɪŋ
charming
ˈtʃɑːmɪŋ
consuming
kənˈsjuːmɪŋ
dreaming
ˈdriːmɪŋ
farming
ˈfɑːmɪŋ
gleaming
ˈɡliːmɪŋ
grooming
ˈɡruːmɪŋ
instreaming
ˈɪnˌstriːmɪŋ
mainstreaming
ˈmeɪnstriːmɪŋ
performing
pəˈfɔːmɪŋ
redeeming
rɪˈdiːmɪŋ
scheming
ˈskiːmɪŋ
screaming
ˈskriːmɪŋ
seeming
ˈsiːmɪŋ
steaming
ˈstiːmɪŋ
streaming
ˈstriːmɪŋ
teeming
ˈtiːmɪŋ
undreaming
ʌnˈdriːmɪŋ
unseeming
ʌnˈsiːmɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DAYDREAMING

dayboy
daybreak
daycare
daycare centre
daycare worker
daycation
daycentre
daych
daydream
daydreamer
daydreamlike
daydreamy
dayflies
dayflower
dayfly
daygirl
dayglow
daylight
daylight hours
daylight lamp

WORDS THAT END LIKE DAYDREAMING

advergaming
antifoaming
becoming
benaming
coaming
coming
exergaming
flaming
framing
gaming
gloaming
homecoming
picture-framing
programming
roaming
shaming
social gaming
swimming
taming
upcoming

Synonyms and antonyms of daydreaming in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DAYDREAMING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «daydreaming» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of daydreaming

Translation of «daydreaming» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DAYDREAMING

Find out the translation of daydreaming to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of daydreaming from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «daydreaming» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

白日梦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

soñar despierto
570 millions of speakers

English

daydreaming
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दिन में सपने देख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أحلام اليقظة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мечтать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sonhar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দিবাস্বপ্ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rêvasser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melamun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Träumerei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

空想
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Daydreaming
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mơ mộng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பகல்கனவு காணுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दिवास्वप्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayal kurmayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sognare ad occhi aperti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

marzeń
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мріяти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

visare cu ochii deschiși
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφηρημάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dagdroom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dagdrömmer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dagdrømmer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of daydreaming

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DAYDREAMING»

The term «daydreaming» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.270 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DAYDREAMING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about daydreaming

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10 QUOTES WITH «DAYDREAMING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word daydreaming.
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Sergio Aragones
When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
2
James W. Black
Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
3
Jenson Button
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.
4
Sandra Cisneros
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
5
Sandra Cisneros
In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I'd sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
6
Jean Dujardin
I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.
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James Duval
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.
8
Jasper Fforde
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
9
Jenna Fischer
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
10
Julia Glass
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DAYDREAMING»

Discover the use of daydreaming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to daydreaming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Daydreaming: unlock the creative power of your mind
A unique study of daylight reveries and internal monologues explains their psychological purpose and what they reveal about ourselves and our needs, desires, and potential, and shows readers how put them to use. 30,000 first printing. $30 ...
F. Diane Barth, 1997
2
Daydreaming in Humans and Machines: A Computer Model of the ...
This volume presents a computer model of human daydreaming to demonstrate how it is useful for creative problem solving and learning in both humans and computers.
Erik T. Mueller, 1990
3
On Freud's "Creative Writers and Daydreaming"
A discussion by several analysts on the length of treatment, based upon Freud's paper, which is also included. Contributors include Andre Green, Arnold Cooper and David Rosenfeld.
Joseph Sandler, 2013
4
Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America ...
The book about America de Tocqueville might have written had he spent some time in the nation’s smoking sections Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails ...
Jenny Diski, 2013
5
The daydreaming boy
Follows the life of Vahâe Tcheubjian, a refugee of the Armenian genocide, now an upstanding member of Beirut's Armenian community during the 1960s, as he continues to deal with the catastrophe.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, 2004
6
Daydreaming: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
7
Daydreaming and Fantasy (Psychology Revivals)
By now the reader must recognize that my approach to daydreaming has been predominantly positive. I have stressed the fantasy process as a normal human phenomenon and as a cognitive skill available for development along a variety of  ...
Jerome L. Singer, 2014
8
The Creativity Question
Daydreaming. [Except for some cursory remarks in the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, The Interpretation of Dreams, Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning, and the preface to Marie Bonaparte's The Life and Works ...
Albert Rothenberg, Carl R. Hausman, 1976
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Daydreaming
Slawek Wojtowicz. THE ART OF SLAWEK WOITOWICZ OREWORD BY DIANA K E M P - ] O N E S 71-80 pq 22116-WOJT DAYDREAMING THE ART OF SLAWEK WOJTOWICZ. Front Cover.
Slawek Wojtowicz, 2004
10
Daydreaming: The Thoughts Inside
The Thoughts Inside Cecile Nextdoor. cases, you need to dedicate most ofyour time to work. You have to be productive in some way. Ifyou do it well, you can afford to do a lot ofleisure things. You go on Holidays and come back to the pattern.
Cecile Nextdoor, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DAYDREAMING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term daydreaming is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why Scott Walker keeps dropping Marco Rubio's name as VP
But that's not going to stop Walker's backers from daydreaming out loud about Walker-Rubio 2016. “My dear wife, Karen, said to me months ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
2
North Miami's Mimmo's Mozzarella Was Hidden for Years Until Now
Daydreaming is a waste of time when you can walk out of Mimmo's with a clutch of fresh mozzarella. Don't forget Proper Sausages is only a ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»
3
Don't Take a Vacation from Healthy Habits
I've been daydreaming about being off the grid, swimming in the lake and not having to make meals and clean up after my kids each day. «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
4
11 Tech Tips for a Stress Free Video Interview
... that pays more than you ever thought you could make working part-time (or maybe it's for that international gig you've been daydreaming of). «AlleyWatch, Jul 15»
5
WWE Movie Review: I Watch '12 Rounds' So You Don't Have To!
He brings depth to a thankless role, and he had me daydreaming about how much more I would rather watch his character engaged in the ... «Cageside Seats, Jul 15»
6
How To Make The Most Of Your Summer Fridays If You Are Lucky …
... all the time can get pretty dull. So start cleaning and daydreaming of little fixes you can accomplish in a few hours … maybe this Friday. «Bustle, Jul 15»
7
7 Actresses Who'd Play Female MacGyver Perfectly (& Not Just …
Ever since I heard about the competition, I've been daydreaming about all the fierce ladies in Hollywood with a background in math and ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
8
Meditate on this: Mindfulness can improve well-being
Spending too much time planning, problem-solving, daydreaming or thinking negative or random thoughts can be draining. It can also make ... «Journal Times, Jul 15»
9
The California State Fair Returns to Cal Expo
After three albums Morris Day launched his solo career, releasing three albums: “The Color of Success,” “Daydreaming,” and “Guaranteed. «Sacramento Observer, Jul 15»
10
Liverpool news: Luis Suarez has actually been made into a vampire …
Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is set to become the star of a children's book as the character 'a vampire no less' in new tale Daydreaming ... «Metro, Jul 15»

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