avoidance
Origin of avoidance
Related Words for avoidance
restraint, evasion, prevention, dodge, recession, flight, forbearance, departure, parry, delay, circumvention, recoil, retreat, escape, self-restraint, escapism, elusion, nonparticipation, shunningExamples from the Web for avoidance
Contemporary Examples of avoidance
The real advisers to the Ready for Hillary organization are almost comically precise in their avoidance of the term “campaign.”
The Coronation That Wants to Be a Movement: Scenes From Hillary’s Iowa Steak FryAna Marie Cox
September 15, 2014
Existential crisis in this reading is not an apprehension of reality, but a symptom of its avoidance.
But those who worked with Charles in advertising say that his avoidance of contact was not shyness, but a deliberate campaign.
According to experts, procrastinators engage in “avoidance motivation.”
There are also promising signs from my own research that some forms of “avoidance” behavior are on the wane.
Historical Examples of avoidance
And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance.
The RepublicPlato
Pleasure is an object of desire, pain of avoidance; and the absence of pain is to be preferred to pain, but not to pleasure.
LawsPlato
There was a pause, and whilst his eyes were upon hers, hers were upon the ground in avoidance of his glance.
Love-at-ArmsRaphael Sabatini
Mackenzie determined there was not going to be any avoidance on his part.
The Flockmaster of Poison CreekGeorge W. Ogden
For the purpose of all their delays had been compromise, and their hope was the avoidance of bloodshed.
The Siege of BostonAllen French