escapismn.
/ɪˈskeɪpɪz(ə)m/ The tendency to seek, or the practice of seeking, distraction from what normally has to be endured.
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1933 Encycl. Social Sci. IX. 533/1 The bibulous, aphrodisiac lyrics strummed out by Anacreon of Teos at the banquets of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, are an example of escapism, comparable to the songs of Alcaeus and Sappho in strife ridden Mytilene.
1935 L. MacNeice Poems 26 This escapism of yours is blasphemy.
1937 H. Read Art & Society 260 Many of the critics of abstract art..dismiss it as the most evident byzantinism, escapism, absolutism.
1940 L. D. Weatherhead This is Victory ix. 188 Religion that was mere escapism.
1946 J. Cary Moonlight 16 Was she, after all, an escapist? Amanda had a great contempt for escapism.
1954 Ess. in Crit. 4 50 He is not entering a plea for mere ‘escapism’ in literature.
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