ladyfingers's definitions

festivist

A would-be escapist who romanticizes the present instead of everything but the present.

Jack: I'm such an escapist. It's New Year's Eve and I'm daydreaming that I'm in Times Square.
Jill: That's not being an escapist, Jack. That's being a festivist.

Jack: I'm such an escapist. We're in San Francisco and I'm daydreaming that it's the 1960s.
Jill: That's not being an escapist, Jack. That's being a festivist.

by ladyfingers March 20, 2013