ESCAPIST Definition & Meaning

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escapist

[ ih-skey-pist ]

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noun

a person who avoids reality by becoming absorbed in entertainment or fantasy:
I, for one, am an escapist, so pondering whether an anime series is "looking out into the world" isn't something I concern myself with.
a person who tries or manages to get out of captivity; an escape artist or escapee:
In 1864, the celebrated prison escapist Hamilton tunneled his way to freedom with 60 other captured Union officers.

adjective

avoiding reality through entertainment or fantasy, or enabling people to do so:
His childhood taste for cowboy adventures and escapist films like Tarzan gave way to an admiration for realist European directors.

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Origin of escapist¹

escap(e) ( def ) + -ist ( def )

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“There was a strong feeling that you were only doing serious theater if you were doing political theater — and everything else was escapist entertainment,” Sossi said.

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It fits into Netflix making star-packed, entertaining and escapist movies that often get panned by reviewers - but are watched by hundreds of millions of subscribers.

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Some films are escapist and you watch it and you forget about reality.

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Are these escapist behemoths really somehow diagnosing the times in which we live?

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"I have always been a bookworm. I will read a bit of anything, but fantasy is my niche because it's escapist," she said.

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