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What is this word? In any language?
Most every language has a term for nightmare, but what is the word for the opposite? (aka, a good dream that you enjoy).
There doesn't seem to be any answer in English. Are there in other languages?
4 Answers
- ?Lv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Well, maybe there is not a word for the exact opposite of "nightmare," but there are indeed words that convey the general meaning of a "pleasant dream." English has the word "reverie" which basically has this meaning (and French does too because English borrowed the word "rêverie"). Spanish also has the word "ensueño" which has a similar meaning as well. Of the top of my head I can't think of equivalent words in Portuguese of German (the other languages that I speak), but there probably is one, as there probably is in other languages as well...
- CURIOUSLv 79 years ago
Opposite of nightmare: reverie (dreaming or thinking about pleasant things) OR sweet dream (2 words).
- RainLv 79 years ago
nightmare: bad dream or experience
antonym : daymare
opposite of nightmare : a good dream, a pleasant dream
