escapism
English
noun
Definitions
- An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy.
- A genre of book, film etc. that one uses to indulge this tendency.
- The performance of an escape artist.
Etymology
Suffix from English escape.
Origin
English
escape
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- escapable English
- escape English
- escape character English
- escapee English
- escapeland English
- escapeless English
- escapement English
- escaper English
- escapest English
- escapeth English
- escapist English
- escapology English
- immunoescape English
- reescape English
- scapegallows English
- unescape English
- eskapismi Finnish
- escape Italian
- escapismo Italian
- escapar Spanish, Castilian
- エスケープ Japanese
- eskapizm Polish
- eskapi Esperanto
- escaper ONF.