escapism

2 definitions found

escapism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  escapism
      n 1: 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" [syn: escape, escapism]

escapism - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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