Escapism
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy A genre of book, film etc. that one uses to indulge this tendency
Example sentence: I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.
Escape
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To get free, to free oneself.To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.To cause (a single character) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.to halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the Esc key) or combination of keys
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)A successful shot from a snooker position.
Example sentence: You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.