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avoid·ance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodgingnoun

    deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Wiktionary

  1. avoidancenoun

    The act of annulling; annulment.

  2. avoidancenoun

    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.

  3. avoidancenoun

    A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

  4. avoidancenoun

    The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

  5. avoidancenoun

    The courts by which anything is carried off.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Avoidancenoun

    Etymology: from avoid.

    It is appointed to give us vigour in the pursuit of what is good, or in the avoidance of what is hurtful. Isaac Watts, Logick.

    For avoidances, and drainings of water, where there is too much, we shall speak of. Francis Bacon, Nat. History, №. 600.

ChatGPT

  1. avoidance

    Avoidance is the act of staying away from, preventing, or withdrawing from a certain situation, person, activity, or thing, usually because it may cause discomfort, harm, or dissatisfaction. It is a behavioral response typically associated with fear, anxiety or stress, and can refer to conscious or unconscious tactics to evade or circumvent negative outcomes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Avoidancenoun

    the act of annulling; annulment

  2. Avoidancenoun

    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

  3. Avoidancenoun

    a dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal

  4. Avoidancenoun

    the act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of

  5. Avoidancenoun

    the courts by which anything is carried off

Wikidata

  1. Avoidance

    Avoidance is a 2002 novel by Michael Lowenthal. It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2003. Avoidance explores the topics of child sexual abuse, hebephilia and pederasty. It is also about social conventions and mores, and ways in which they depend on environment and upbringing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of avoidance in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of avoidance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of avoidance in a Sentence

  1. Carina Venter:

    A dietitian can help parents with advice on food avoidance, information on suitable foods, lifestyle advice, bringing normality into their lives and provide some emotional support.

  2. Carina Venter:

    From clinical practice I know that mothers/parents do not just want the dietary advice we give, but also the emotional support and that 'person on my side', but I had no study that I could refer to, a dietitian can help parents with advice on food avoidance, information on suitable foods, lifestyle advice, bringing normality into their lives and provide some emotional support.

  3. Karl Mitchell:

    Triton is weird, but yet relevantly weird, because of the science we can do there, we know the surface has all these features weve never seen before, which motivates us to want to know How does this world work ? Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. ( Credit : NASA/JPL/USGS) NEPTUNES MOONS ARE IN A DANCE OF AVOIDANCE, NASA SAYS.

  4. Vanna Bonta:

    The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

  5. G. K. Chesterton:

    Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

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