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Escapism

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escapeverb(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

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escapenounThe act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
restitutive fantasynoun(psychology) An imaginary reality created by someone to avoid what they cannot handle emotionally.
romancenounAn intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
fantasizationnounThe action of fantasizing.
immersionnounThe act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
fantasy worldnounA fictional world in literature, film, etc., involving unreal elements such as magic.
intrusion fantasynounLow-fantasy fiction where magical or fantastical elements intrude into the real world.
fantasynoun(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
phantasynoun(psychology) The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
imaginationnounThe image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
surrealscapenoun(rare) A surreal landscape.
irrealismnoun(art) A style that features an estrangement from our generally accepted sense of reality.
thoughtscapenounA mental or imaginary landscape.
fearscapenounA place or general atmosphere of fear.
isekainoun(chiefly Japanese fiction, uncountable) A genre of Japanese fiction involving everyday people transported to alternative fantasy or virtual worlds.
abstractionnounThe act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
exoticizationnounthe representation of something ordinary as being exotic
flightnounThe act of flying.
ecstasisnoun(prosody) Synonym of paragoge.
paracosmosnoun(rare) The realm of imagination; an imaginary world.

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