Home › Words › E › elsewhereismelsewhereismelsewhereism means the act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings.EtymologyFrom elsewhere + -ism.nounThe act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings.e.g.“Indeed these old legends are in their nature subjective rather than objective, and have their roots in a primitive tendency of the human mind which might be named "elsewhereism" or " alibism."” — 1876 October, “The Cradle of Civilisation”, in The Quarterly Journal of Science, volume 13, page 441:A preference for other places; a belief that things are better or more interesting elsewhere.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.elsewhereness 73% match — The quality of being elsewhere. vs elsewhereism →elsewhere 56% match — Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place. vs elsewhereism →elsewhence 56% match — From elsewhere; from some other place or source. vs elsewhereism →absentness 56% match — The quality of being absent-minded. vs elsewhereism →outsideness 56% match — The state or condition of being outside. vs elsewhereism →otherwhere 54% match — Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place. vs elsewhereism →elsewhither 54% match — To some other place; in some other direction. vs elsewhereism →escapism 54% match — An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy. vs elsewhereism →