avoidance
noun
the act of avoiding or keeping away from.
avoidances
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pluralof avoidance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In worry exposure the person is told to set a daily time to purposefully seat in a "worry chair" and think repeatedly about the thoughts that are anxiety provoking without engaging in distractions or avoidances.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016
Superstitions are not free—rituals and avoidances cost an animal in terms of energy or lost opportunities.
From US News ● Jun. 8, 2011
Here it is proposed intentionally to set up a galvanic couple to prevent corrosion; there, with the same object in view, the avoidances of galvanic action is counselled.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
These things he learned more by averted glances and partially concealed avoidances than by overt act or speech.
From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by John E. Copus
She lived again in the waltz; in the gliding motions of it, the delicious fluctuations of the reverse, the long trance-like union, the instinctive avoidances of other contact.
From Leonora by Arnold Bennett
