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avoidance

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a·void·ance  (-voidns)
n.
1. The act of shunning or avoiding.
2. Law An annulment.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.avoidanceavoidance - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
shunning, turning away, dodging
rejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
aversion, averting - the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"
escape - an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
near thing - something that barely avoids failure or disaster
avoidance
noun 1. refraining, dodging, shirking, eschewal
noun 2. prevention, safeguard, precaution, anticipation, thwarting, elimination, deterrence, forestalling, prophylaxis, preclusion, obviation
Individual and/or unit measures taken to avoid or minimize nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) attacks and reduce the effects of NBC hazards.
Translations
Spanish avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] n → evasión f
French avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] n → le fait d'éviter
German avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] avoid n (of tax) → Umgehung f;
(of issue) → Vermeidung f
Italian avoidance [əˈvɔɪdəns] n → l'evitare m
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As the story of 'Agnes Grey' was accused of extravagant over-colouring in those very parts that were carefully copied from the life, with a most scrupulous avoidance of all exaggeration, so, in the present work, I find myself censured for depicting CON AMORE, with 'a morbid love of the coarse, if not of the brutal,' those scenes which, I will venture to say, have not been more painful for the most fastidious of my critics to read than they were for me to describe.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context
It is astonishing how much the Art -- or I may almost call it instinct -- of Sight Recognition is developed by the habitual practice of it and by the avoidance of the custom of "Feeling".
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"I beg your pardon," offered Edna, in some embarrassment, for she should have remembered that Mademoiselle Reisz's avoidance of the water had furnished a theme for much pleasantry.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
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