avoidance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=void=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

avoidance, n. 

•  The act of annulling; annulment.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.  [1913 Webster]

  "Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him."  [1913 Webster]
•  A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.  Beattie.  [1913 Webster]
•  The courts by which anything is carried off.  [1913 Webster]

  "Avoidances and drainings of water."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

avoidance

Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, continence, cringe, dodge, duck, elusion, eschewal, evasion, fallback, fast, fish day, flinch, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, nephalism, plain living, pullback, pullout, recoil, refraining, refrainment, retreat, runaround, sexual abstinence, shunning, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, simple diet, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, wince

ROGET THESAURUS

avoidance

Avoidance

N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.