Crossword-Solution: ESCAPISM 8 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

We have 37 clues for the answer “ESCAPISM”

Clue Answers
Reality avoidance 1 answer
Avoidance, in a way 1 answer
ESCAPE from realities of life into fantasy, tendency to 1 answer
Entertainment providing a mental diversion 1 answer
Means of avoiding reality 1 answer
Much TV programming, to some 1 answer
Much film watching, e.g. 1 answer
Reading comics, doing crosswords, etc. 1 answer
Reading romance novels, for some 1 answer
Refusal to face facts 1 answer
Summer film offering 1 answer
Summer movie offering 1 answer
Summer movie specialty 1 answer
Video game playing, e.g. 1 answer
Watching "Avatar," say 1 answer
taking refuge in fantasy to avoid unpleasant reality 1 answer
Avoidance of reality. 2 answers
Playing video games, say 2 answers
Wool-gathering 2 answers
CHARACTERIZED BY AVOIDANCE OF TRADITIONAL WESTERN TONALITY 10 answers
A PLEADING THAT ALLEGES NEW FACTS IN AVOIDANCE OF THE OPPOSING ALLEGATIONS 10 answers
CHARACTERIZED BY AVOIDANCE OR WITHDRAWAL 10 answers
COINCIDING WITH REALITY 11 answers
Getaway 12 answers
pipe dream 13 answers
romanticism 15 answers
Idealism 16 answers
Dream world? 21 answers
Flight of fancy 21 answers
Fable 37 answers
Imagination 38 answers
Daydreaming 40 answers
fiction 49 answers
Daydream 62 answers
Story 79 answers
Caprice 84 answers
Escape 87 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESCAPISM (5)

Melodramatic fiction, at least 200 years old, paved the way for pulp fiction and today's surefire bestsellers based on gossip and escapism.
The Civilization of Illiteracy Mihai Nadin 2000
Yet international affairs spending today is just 1 percent of the federal budget, a small fraction of what America invested in diplomacy to choose leadership over escapism at the start of the cold war.
State of the Union Addresses of William J. Clinton William J. Clinton 2004
The child becomes a reflection of its dysfunctional family - it represses emotions, denies reality, resorts to violence and escapism, disintegrates.
The Development Psychology of Psychopathology Sam Vaknin 2007
These days the Yakuza considered themselves the last heirs of the samurai, but they still supplied escapism, be it in the form of nightclubs, gambling, or amphetamines.
Project Daedalus Thomas Hoover 2010
The Kamakura warriors turned to Zen for strength on the battlefield, whereas the Ashikaga court found in it aesthetic escapism and spiritual solace in a crumbling world.
Zen Culture Thomas Hoover 2010

Quotes with ESCAPISM (3)

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
Jess C. Scott EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message — And Lo! There shall be Two Hot Boys, one of them your Heart’s Intended, the other a vain Pretender who is also hot and with whom you shall have guilty makeouts before settling down with your One True Love — I am inclined to stop viewing the situation as benign and start wondering why, for instance, the …
Foz Meadows
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Used 12 times in crossword archives (1997–2024).