[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

woolgathering \wool"gath`ering\, a.
   indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;
   roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

woolgathering \wool"gath`ering\, n.
   indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit
   or design.
   1913 webster

         his wits were a woolgathering, as they say. --burton.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

woolgathering
     adj : dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" syn: dreamy,
            moony
     n : an idle indulgence in fantasy
see also:
dreamy moony 

[4] : 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

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