dreaminess

see definition of dreaminess

as inlaziness
as inabsent-mindedness
as inrest
as inreverie
as ininattention
as inbemusement
as inremoteness
as inshiftlessness
as inslothfulness
as insluggardness
as indetachment
as inforgetfulness

Synonyms for dreaminess

noun unwillingness to work, be active

Antonyms for dreaminess

bemusement

noun. absent-mindedness

detachment

noun. aloofness

forgetfulness

noun. consistent inability to remember

inattention

noun. heedlessness

Word Origin & History

1560s, "full of dreams," from dream + -y (2). Meaning "perfect, ideal," attested from 1941, American English teen slang. Cf. dreamboat "romantically desirable person;" dream girl (1903).

Example Sentences for dreaminess

It had dreaminess in it, intense attention, and something like sternness.

Her eyes were soft and limpid, and they held an expression of dreaminess in their depths.

By his mother and sisters, for instance, his dreaminess was constantly noted.

The English girl's eyes had in them now less of dreaminess, and more of thought.

She must have infected me with her dreaminess, for I, too, read nothing and just dreamed.

It all appeals to the warmth, color, and dreaminess in your happy imagination.

I felt a numbness of body and mind—a dreaminess of sensation but this was all.

Hugo packed his bags one September afternoon, with a feeling of dreaminess.

For with his German dreaminess he united a truly Spanish fanaticism.

"It was an accident," said Patty, coming back out of her dreaminess.