Escapist

Definition: Escapist

Escapist

Noun

1. A person who escapes into a world of fantasy.

Synonyms: Escapist

Synonyms: dreamer (n), wishful thinker (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence. (8 1/2; writing credit: Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano)
Movie/TV Titles	The Escapist (1983)
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Domain	Title
Books	Escapist Thoughts: The Alien Pickup (reference) Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist (reference) Shanghai Escapist (reference) The Bedside Star : a selection of mostly escapist reading from the pages of the Star, Saturday Star and Sunday Star (reference) The Escapist (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Escapist (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The escapist!.Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Escapist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Escapist" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	43	52,181

Expression using "escapist": escapist literature. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "escapist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zbavitës (amusing, diverting, entertaining, full of beans, funny, light), shkrimtar që nuk përshkruan problema të rëndë. (various references)

Bulgarian		който бяга от действителността, ескейпист. (various references)

Chinese		脱离现实. (various references)

Czech		snílek (dreamer, visionary). (various references)

Hungarian		valóságtól menekülő, eszképista. (various references)

Italian		di evasione, chi cerca di evadere dalla realt� . (various references)

Pig Latin		escapistay

Portuguese		escapismo. (various references)

Romanian		evazionist. (various references)

Russian		эскапистский, писатель-эскапист. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		onaj koji beži od stvarnosti, koji beži od stvarnosti. (various references)

Swedish		eskapistisk, eskapist. (various references)

Turkish		romantik (dreamy, poet, poetic, poetical, romanesque, romantic, romanticist, starry eyed), hayalperest (day dreamer, dreamer, dreamy, fanciful, illusionist, imaginative, notional, quixotic, stargazer, vaporous, visionary), hayal dünyasında yaşayan kimse, gerçeklerden kaçan kimse, gerçeklerden kaçan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "escapist": escapists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Escapist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Escarpit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: spaciest.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: ascites, aseptic, aspects, cesspit, ectasis, pasties, patsies, petsais, septics, spastic, spicate, tapises.
	-2 letters: apices, aspect, aspics, castes, cestas, epacts, pastes, pastie, pastis, petsai, pietas, pistes, saices, scapes, sepias, septic, siesta, spaces, spaits, spates, spicae, spicas, spices, spites, stapes, stipes, tassie.
	-3 letters: apses, apsis, aspic, aspis, asset, capes, cases, caste, casts, cates, cesta, cesti.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-p-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: campsites, escapists, pastiches, pistaches, practises, spacesuit, speciates, tieclasps.
	+2 letters: anapestics, apostacies, cadetships, caespitose, cathepsins, cityscapes, dispatches, mispatches, patchiness, prefascist, scapolites, scrappiest, spacesuits, specialest, specialist.
	+3 letters: antiseptics, archpriests, capitalises, captionless, catalepsies, constipates, dispatchers, episcopates, esemplastic, interspaces, metaphysics, pasticheurs, plasticenes, plasticines, plasticizes, prefascists, psittacines, psittacoses, septicemias, specialists, specialties, speciations, spermacetis, supplicates, supremacist, tapersticks, typicalness.
	+4 letters: atmospherics, captiousness, cataphoresis, ceratopsians, escapologist, intraspecies, masterpieces, osteoplastic, patchinesses, plasticities, plasticizers, poeticalness, postulancies, psychiatries, scapegoatism, scyphistomae, separatistic, sociopathies, sophisticate, spaceflights, spasticities, specialistic, specialities, speculations, spirochaetes, subspecialty, superplastic, supremacists, sympathetics, transpierces.
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