escapismes‧cap‧is‧m /ɪˈskeɪpɪzəm/ noun [uncountable] - The world looks to Hollywood for escapism.
- But it is a form of escapism that is comforting to a great number of people.
- But no matter what trips your escapism triggers, City Week still wishes you and yours a big Merry Christmas.
- Every teenage fantasy, frustration and obsession is here as the naive youngsters exchange their drab existences for an alcohol-induced escapism.
- His equivalent of Edwardian leisured escapism is today's green movement.
- In September 1926 he settled for what appeared to be the only remaining solution: escapism.
- We wanted her relationship with Hannah to be characterized by less tension and anxiety and by neither overprotectiveness nor escapism.
- With empathy and encouragement, however, Sally was helped to identify her overprotectiveness and escapism.
► a form of escapism Books were a form of escapism from the real world. nounescapeescapismescapeeescapologistadjectiveescapedinescapableescapistverbescapeadverbinescapably