woolgathering

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

woolgathering
    adj 1: dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn:
           {dreamy}, {moony}, {woolgathering}]
    n 1: an idle indulgence in fantasy

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, a.
   Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;
   roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Woolgathering \Wool"gath`er*ing\, n.
   Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit
   or design.
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         His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. --Burton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 Moby Thesaurus words for "woolgathering":
      Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded,
      absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness,
      abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building,
      daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought,
      dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed,
      engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction,
      half-awake, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought,
      meditative, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness,
      musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive,
      pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt,
      reverie, somewhere else, stargazing, study, taken up, trance,
      transported, unconscious, wrapped in thought