escapist

escapism | American Dictionary

escapism
noun[ U ]
us/ɪˈskeɪˌpɪz·əm/
the activity of avoiding reality by imagining exciting but impossible activities

Examples of escapism

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The escapist, however, has some work to show that escapism is not only a viable solution to the problem, but the best of the alternatives.
Unlike the first solution, escapism does not base moral or religious evaluation on possible but non-actual worlds, but only on the actual world.
My discussion of escapism has focused on the problems of luck in constitution.
In particular, we have argued that escapism ought to be one of the options to the traditional doctrine.
So, escapism is not committed to the questionable claim that there is a determinate degree of control that a person has.
Escapism might have an undesirable side effect of its own, however.
We shall largely ignore the biblical case that may be made for escapism as that is the task of the biblical and systematic theologian.
Art, in this view, should exist only as a form of escapism.
The body ill at ease here goes together with escapism.
Unlike the second solution, escapism does not restrict the basis of religious evaluation to what is under a person's control.
The pastoral emerges as a nexus of impulses, including epicurean licence, nostalgic escapism, sentimental heroism and chivalric ritual.
I will leave that task to others, however, and turn to the question of how escapism fares with respect to the problem of religious luck.
One might argue that, despite the foregoing argument, escapism avoids the problem of religious luck.
Unfortunately, escapism fails to avoid the problem of religious luck.
Collecting can provide a sense of escapism and a private refuge from both the wider world and the immediate domestic environment, albeit temporarily.
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