escapist
nounEtymology From escape + -ist.
1
Someone who wants to escape; especially from reality
- Derived terms
- escapistic
- Related terms
- escapologist
escapist
adjEtymology From escape + -ist.
1
Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
- He enjoys reading escapist fiction in his free time.
- The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is the doomiest and gloomiest yet in the action-adventure franchise.2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC: