A state or quality of being dreamy; dreaminess, or a collection or realm of dreams.
From dream + -ery (suffix forming abstract nouns and collectives, from Old French -erie). Similar to -age, -ery denotes a state, quality, or place of something.
The -ery suffix creates words like 'sorcery' and 'mockery'—'dreamery' would mean the realm or quality of dreaming, but English speakers naturally compressed this into simpler 'dreaminess,' showing how language gradually simplifies competing forms.
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