If you describe an activity or type of entertainment as escapism, you mean that it makes people think about pleasant things instead of the uninteresting or unpleasant aspects of their life.
例句
Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world.占星术只不过是让人逃避越发令人沮丧的世界的无害消遣罢了。
英英词典释义
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"