From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism" [syn: {escape}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "escapism": alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, break, breakout, compensation, decompensation, defense mechanism, deliverance, delivery, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, emergence, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, evasion, extrication, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, freeing, getaway, isolation, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation, negativism, outlet, overcompensation, prisonbreak, projection, psychotaxis, rationalization, release, rescue, resistance, riddance, setting-free, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, vent, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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