Having a dreamy, distracted, or imaginative quality; seeming lost in pleasant thoughts or fantasies.
Adjective formed from 'daydream' with the suffix '-y,' making it parallel to 'dreamy.' Popular in descriptive and literary writing since the 1800s.
The word 'daydreamy' became attached to Romantic poets and artists in the 1800s—they cultivated this quality intentionally because being daydreamy meant you had imagination and deep feeling.
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