escape mechanism

1. 1.

   a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities

   Broaderevasion

Questions about escape mechanism

What does escape mechanism mean?

escape mechanism means "a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities".

Is escape mechanism a common word?

escape mechanism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.