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escapism

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Adjective, Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun escapism has 1 sense

  • escapism(n = noun.act) escape - an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
  • is a kind of diversion, recreation
    Derived form noun escapist1

OXFORD DICTIONARY

escapism, n. the tendency to seek distraction and relief from reality, esp. in the arts or through fantasy.

Derivative
escapist n. & adj.

THESAURUS

escapism

alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, break, breakout, compensation, decompensation, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, emergence, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, evasion, extrication, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, freeing, getaway, isolation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation, negativism, outlet, overcompensation, prisonbreak, projection, psychotaxis, rationalization, release, rescue, resistance, riddance, setting-free, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, vent, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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