stardust

Charm or attractiveness that stems from celebrity and tends to forestall criticism.

A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being.

Dust formed in very hot gasses ejected from stellar atmospheres or in supernova explosions.

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.

Particles of matter that fall from the stars down to Earth; often used idiomatically to suggest a fanciful or dreamlike quality.

A distant cluster of stars, resembling a cloud, the individual stars of which cannot be resolved.

a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality