elsewhereism

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

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

The téléroman exudes both a sense of déjà vu and “elsewhereism.”

2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 2296