Definition of "elsewhereism"

elsewhereism

noun
uncountable
1. The act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings.
  Quotations
  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
  For example, engaging in 'elsewhereism' (e.g., daydreaming, doodling, and texting) is but one strategy that others may use to resist superordinate's attempts to frame the interaction sequences at hand.
  2022, Deborah C. Poff, University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance, page 139
  But like all things in evolution, the solutions produced by elsewhereism have created new problems .
  2023, Avram Alpert, The Good-Enough Life, page 215
2. A preference for other places; a belief that things are better or more interesting elsewhere.
  Quotations
  Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.
  2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58
  Not subject to elsewhereism.
  2013, John Flood, What Do Lawyers Do?: An Ethnography of a Corporate Law Firm
  The téléroman exudes both a sense of déjà vu and “elsewhereism.”
  2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 2296