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escapism
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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