escapist

From escape +‎ -ist.

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escapist (comparative more escapist, superlative most escapist)

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.

   • 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^[1]:

     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.

escapist (plural escapists)

1. Someone who wants to escape; especially from reality

• escapologist

• capsites, spaciest

Borrowed from English escapiste.

escapist m or n (feminine singular escapistă, masculine plural escapiști, feminine and neuter plural escapiste)

1. escapist