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escapism

[ ih-skey-piz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the avoidance of reality by absorption of the mind in entertainment or in an imaginative situation, activity, etc.

escapism

/ ɪˈskeɪpɪzəm /

an inclination to or habit of retreating from unpleasant or unacceptable reality, as through diversion or fantasy

First recorded in 1930–35; escape + -ism

If nothing else, that clarity makes sports a healthy form of escapism.

Not only is it the finest form of escapism yet invented by humans—even including laser tag, opiates and Temptation Island!

His one previous musical, the 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You, is an ode to the pleasures of old-Hollywood escapism.

Maybe, somewhere in our current favorite object of escapism, there is an obscure hunger to confront these hard facts.

You can enjoy the Taken franchise as trashy escapism or you can see it as sexually conservative propaganda.

If "escapism" be a need of man, cramped in his narrow personality, can any escape compare with the majesty of omnipresence?

They are escapism embodied, a dreamland, a scape of fantasy, the vale of telenovellas.

"They're still a far cry from reality, or even the usual escapism," said the banker.

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