n.
- A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.
- A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use.
- Minute particles of matter that fall to Earth from the stars. Not in scientific use.
have stardust in (one's) eyes
- To be uncritically or unrealistically optimistic.
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