Synonyms for avoidance
avoid·ance

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1. avoidance

   Synonyms:
   aimlessness, carelessness, heedlessness, neglect, negligence, oversight, purposelessness, thoughtlessness

   Antonyms:
   aim, aspiration, design, determination, end, end, endeavor, endeavor, goal, inclination, intent, intention, mark, object, purpose, tendency

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1. avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodgingnoun

   deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

   Synonyms:
   scheme, dodging, escape, evasion, shunning, dodge, turning away

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1. avoidancenoun

   Synonyms:
   evasion, eluding, eschewing, parrying

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1. List of paraphrases for "avoidance":

   avoid, evasion, annulment, cancellation, prevention, avoiding, circumvention, siding, escape, voiding, heroes, nullification, prevent, rescission, avoided

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1. 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.

2. Thomas Hardy:

   A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

3. John Maynard Keynes:

   The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

4. Michael J. Sandel:

   A politics of moral engagement is not only a more inspiring ideal than a politics of avoidance. It is also a more promising basis for a just society.

5. David Pilgrim:

   When the dancing stops, the problems remain. Each day we dance — or work, or study, or shop — as if this country does not have systemic injustice, as if some groups are not hurt in the everyday flow of society. Every now and again, a racial incident or an expression of art makes us pause and reflect, but we soon return to dancing, return to the avoidance that we crave.