noun

• Indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagining; absent-mindedness.

  ‘a vacant daze that leads to formless wool-gathering’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Is the 19 March memo just a bit of wool-gathering by the WTO Secretariat?’
  • ‘‘After her first success Alexandra went wool-gathering for some time and stopped working hard in the gym,’ she said.’
  • ‘Buddhism may be diluted by sloppy New Age enthusiasms, and most non-Buddhist artists may revel in the narcissism, intellectual wool-gathering, conflict, and violence that the religion abhors.’
  • ‘Carr talks loneliness, life, joy and personal politics, deliberately avoiding wool-gathering or the delivery of harsh homilies.’

  Synonyms

  daydreaming, dreaming, building castles in the air, building castles in Spain, reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, brown study, distraction, inattention

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