avoidance

English

Alternative forms

• avoidaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avoidaunce, probably from Anglo-Norman. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɔɪdəns/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

avoidance (usually uncountable, plural avoidances)

1. The act of annulling; annulment.
2. 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. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
4. 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 24962326:

     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.

5. Any thing that is to be avoided
6. The courts by which anything is carried off.

Coordinate terms

• minced oath

Translations

The act of annulling

• Bulgarian: отменяне (bg) (otmenjane), анулиране (bg) (anulirane)
• Greek: ακύρωση (el) f (akýrosi)

• 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)
• Spanish: evasión (es) f, abstinencia (es) f

The act of avoiding or shunning

• Bulgarian: избягване (bg) (izbjagvane), отбягване (bg) (otbjagvane)
• Catalan: evitació (ca) f
• Danish: undgåelse c
• Dutch: vermijden (nl) n
• Finnish: välttäminen, karttaminen
• French: évitement (fr) m
• German: Vermeidung f
• Greek: αποφυγή (el) f (apofygí)

• Hungarian: elkerülés (hu)
• Japanese: 回避 (ja) (kaihi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: unngåelse m

• Portuguese: evasão (pt) f
• Spanish: evitación (es) f
• Swedish: undvikande (sv) n

Anagrams

• vadocaine