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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing

Meaning of "dreaminess" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DREAMINESS

dreaminess  [ˈdriːmɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DREAMINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dreaminess 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 DREAMINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dreaminess in the English dictionary

The definition of dreaminess in the dictionary is a dreamy feeling.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DREAMINESS


acuminous
əˈkjuːmɪnəs
albuminous
ælˈbjuːmɪnəs
aluminous
əˈluːmɪnəs
balminess
ˈbɑːmɪnəs
barminess
ˈbɑːmɪnəs
bituminous
bɪˈtjuːmɪnəs
cacuminous
kəˈkjuːmɪnəs
ceruminous
sɪˈruːmɪnəs
conterminous
kənˈtɜːmɪnəs
coterminous
kəʊˈtɜːmɪnəs
creaminess
ˈkriːmɪnəs
leguminous
lɪˈɡjuːmɪnəs
luminous
ˈluːmɪnəs
nonluminous
ˌnɒnˈluːmɪnəs
numinous
ˈnjuːmɪnəs
subbituminous
ˌsʌbbɪˈtjuːmɪnəs
terminus
ˈtɜːmɪnəs
torminous
ˈtɔːmɪnəs
verminous
ˈvɜːmɪnəs
voluminous
vəˈluːmɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DREAMINESS

dreamboat
dreamer
dreamery
dreamful
dreamfully
dreamfulness
dreamhole
dreamier
dreamiest
dreamily
dreaming
dreamingly
dreamland
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamlessness
dreamlike
dreamt
Dreamtime
dreamy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DREAMINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loneliness
loveliness
readiness
timeliness

Synonyms and antonyms of dreaminess in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dreaminess» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DREAMINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ensoñación
570 millions of speakers

English

dreaminess
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dreaminess
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخيالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мечтательность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

devaneio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dreaminess
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rêverie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mimpi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verträumtheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

夢幻
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dreaminess
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dreaminess
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dreaminess
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dreaminess
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वप्नाळू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayalcilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dreaminess
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozmarzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мрійливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stare de visare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dreaminess
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dromerigheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dreaminess
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dreaminess
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dreaminess

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DREAMINESS»

The term «dreaminess» is regularly used and occupies the 102.269 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DREAMINESS» OVER TIME

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «DREAMINESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dreaminess.
1
R. D. Laing
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
2
Charles Simmons
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DREAMINESS»

Discover the use of dreaminess in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dreaminess and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Perspectives on Richard Ford
Frank often refers to a period of “dreaminess,” or alienation, that he endured after his son's death. He defines that dreaminess as “a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality” (42).
Huey Guagliardo, 2010
2
The World is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary ...
One of the key terms in Frank's lexicon is "dreaminess" that he uses to describe this sense of alienation and detachment. He defines dreaminess as "among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless ...
Jeffrey Jay Folks
3
A Southern Enigma: Essays on teh U.S. South
And Frank, as well, is in the habit of devising his terms—dreaminess, literalism, factualism, relenting—to explain his states of mind and those of others. Dreaminess he defines as “a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much ...
Fred Hobson, 2011
4
Morality, Identity and Narrative in the Fiction of Richard Ford
The most instinctive and immediate aspect of this defensive response has been his condition of dreaminess. As Frank conceives it, it is a state of detachment or disconnectedness from himself, producing in him the urge “to 'see around the ...
Brian Duffy, 2008
5
Meeting the Masters: A Spiritual Apprenticeship
Chapter. 24. Idle. Dreaminess. and. False. Prophets. If I had thought that the holiday in India might be the precursor to a more rapid development on our return , I was mistaken. Life continued in much the same vein as before, revolving around ...
William Wildblood, 2012
6
The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to.
Richard Ford, 2010
7
Sketches in the Pyrenees
160 DREAMINESS. you to the Georgian vales, in whose deep shades the royal Abbas wooed the wise and tender Abra. The pear tree brings you back to the cottage wall : the apple puts in its word with a long score of school-boy larcenies  ...
8
The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World
And Frank, as well, is in the habit of devising his terms — dreaminess, literalism, factualism, relenting — to explain his states of mind and those of others. Dreaminess he defines as "a state of suspended recognition and a response to too much ...
Fred C. Hobson, 1991
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The Last Good Night: A Novel
There's a dreaminess, a glow when David speaks about his work (the very term urban planning bespeaks a certain optimism, after all, as if cities can actually be managed, the future itself plotted out in grids), and it was this dreaminess that first  ...
Emily Listfield, 2009
10
Women and the Victorian Occult
A ''feminine'' tendency to dreaminess, idealism and reverence that merges with Armathwaite's ''chivalry'' clearly threatens to unman him: [...] a fear which this sensible, practical young man began to feel, lest the interest of this case and the  ...
Tatiana Kontou, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DREAMINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dreaminess is used in the context of the following news items.
1
SPIN Overlooked Albums Report: Hop Along Gives Us Palpitations …
... of Bruce Springsteen's “I'm on Fire,” which even outdoes the Boys' excellent “Dancing in the Dark” rework in its smoked-out dreaminess. «SPIN, Jul 15»
2
'Sidewalk Sale' features three eclectic, brief plays by playwright …
Annie Gaia brings a winsome dreaminess to her performance as Octavia, while Kathryn Merris Scott gives Gigi a cold pragmatism. «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
3
This Disney Prince Is Getting A Live-Action Film Of His Very Own
Two big questions linger. Firstly, who could possibly capture the dreaminess of Disney's number-one stud? Richard Madden and Chris Pine ... «Refinery29, Jul 15»
4
Magic Mike XXL
For those who have witnessed the sheer dreaminess of Magic Mike XXL, you'll remember a scene in which Joe Manganiello does a striptease ... «Cosmopolitan UK, Jul 15»
5
Music Review: Magnificent Birds of Prey – 'Kaleidoscope'
The opener, “Sticks and Stones”, balances out a certain dreaminess with a hard rock edge. The lead's gritty voice captures listeners' attention; ... «Blogcritics, Jul 15»
6
Mimir Chamber Music Festival opens with spot-on performances
... spare music as a refrain, interspersed with suggestions of folk dance, songful dreaminess and stormy stuff suggesting the composer to come. «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
7
Why does it feel like Pamuk?
It has the same quality of dreaminess, both literal and figurative, that I find in Pamuk and since Pamuk is pretty much Turkey's best known writer ... «The Asian Age, Jul 15»
8
10 Jaw-Droppingg Photo Mashups by Jeff Chapman
The moon reflected on the ocean behind her really seals the dreaminess of this image. Poison Ivy. Superheroes aren't the only ones to get a ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
9
Midsummer CDs
You can read it — “it” being his convention-confronting manifesto — on his Twitter feed, and you can hear it in the spunky nu-disco dreaminess ... «Dallas Voice, Jul 15»
10
by: AUSTRALIAN POETRY: AIDAN COLEMAN
At its most lyrical and fluent the voice is most in danger of drifting off into dreaminess but, because such brazen lyricism is rare in Australian ... «The Australian, Jul 15»

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