› a way of avoiding an unpleasant or boring life, especially by thinking, reading, etc. about more exciting but impossible activities:
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(Definition of “escapism” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
"escapism" in American English
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