"elsewhereism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1876 October, “The Cradle of Civilisation”, in The Quarterly Journal of Science, volume 13, page 441",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2022, Deborah C. Poff, University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance, page 139",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2023, Avram Alpert, The Good-Enough Life, page 215",
          "text": "But like all things in evolution, the solutions produced by elsewhereism have created new problems .",
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        "The act or process of thinking about something other than one's immediate surroundings."
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          "ref": "2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2013, John Flood, What Do Lawyers Do?: An Ethnography of a Corporate Law Firm",
          "text": "Not subject to elsewhereism.",
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          "ref": "2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 2296",
          "text": "The téléroman exudes both a sense of déjà vu and “elsewhereism.”",
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