avoidance

English

Alternative forms

• avoidaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avoidaunce, from avoid +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɔɪdəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

avoidance (usually uncountable, plural avoidances)

1. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. (law, obsolete) The act of annulling; annulment.
3. (obsolete) 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.
4. (obsolete) The act of dismissing a person.
5. (obsolete) The act of quitting a position or benefice.
6. (obsolete) The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, “XLV. Of Building”, in The essays, or councils, civil and moral […] with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients, published 1696, page 122:

     In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.

Derived terms

• anti-avoidance
• avoidance speech
• avoision
• chemoavoidance
• cost avoidance
• isoneuronal avoidance
• nonavoidance
• photoavoidance
• taboo avoidance
• tax avoidance
• zone of avoidance

 

Translations

The act of avoiding or shunning

• Arabic: تَجَنُّب m (tajannub)
• Bulgarian: избягване (bg) (izbjagvane), отбягване (bg) (otbjagvane)
• Catalan: evitació (ca) f
• Danish: undgåelse c
• Dutch: vermijden (nl) n
• Finnish: välttäminen (fi), karttaminen (fi)
• French: évitement (fr) m
• German: Vermeidung (de) f
• Greek: αποφυγή (el) f (apofygí)
• Hungarian: elkerülés (hu)
• Irish: seachaint f
• Italian: elusione (it) f, prevenzione (it) f
• Japanese: 回避 (ja) (kaihi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: unngåelse m

• Portuguese: evasão (pt) f; evitação f, evitamento m
• Spanish: evitación (es) f
• Swahili: ukwepaji
• Swedish: undvikande (sv) n
• Welsh: osgoi (cy) m

The act of annulling

• Bulgarian: отменяне (bg) (otmenjane), анулиране (bg) (anulirane)
• Greek: ακύρωση (el) f (akýrosi)
• Italian: annullamento (it) m
• Japanese: 取り消し (ja) (torikeshi), 撤回 (ja) (tekkai)
• Spanish: anulación (es) f

A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

• Bulgarian: оттегляне (bg) (ottegljane), касиране (bg) (kasirane)
• Greek: απομάκρυνση (el) f (apomákrynsi)
• Italian: rimozione (it) f
• Spanish: evasión (es) f, abstinencia (es) f

Anagrams

• vadocaine