escapismnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪˈskeɪ.pɪ.zəm/us/ɪˈskeɪ.pɪ.zəm/a way of avoiding an unpleasant or boring life, especially by thinking, reading, etc. about more exciting but impossible activities:
These adventure movies are pure escapism.
For many people going on holiday is a form of escapism.
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Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- fairyland
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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escapist
noun [ C ], adjective uk/ɪˈskeɪ.pɪst/us/ɪˈskeɪ.pɪst/
escapist literature