'avoidance' definitions:
Definition of 'avoidance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging]
Synonyms of 'avoidance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- asceticism,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- continence,
- cringe,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- Encratism,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- fallback,
- fast,
- fish day,
- flinch,
- Friday,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- Lenten fare,
- nephalism,
- plain living,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- retreat,
- runaround,
- sexual abstinence,
- Shakerism,
- shunning,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- simple diet,
- spare diet,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- wince