avoidance
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3.7
- noun
- /əˈvɔɪdəns/
:
evitación
- The patient's avoidance of social situations was a clear sign of anxiety.
- avoidance behavior
- avoidance of conflict
- avoidance of criticism
No, no, it is avoidance of a bad, terrible feeling.
- No, no, it is avoidance of a bad, terrible feeling.
- It's being used as escape and avoidance of the actual topic.
- Are they somehow linked to our avoidance of the sun?
- So, so I would say the, the three factors, punishment, avoidance and control, right?
- If the other group was not to do that, there would be an avoidance of social costs.
- That comes through choice and refusal or avoidance.
- And we always talk about and, and the tax world, there's tax avoidance and tax evasion.
- And so the the term that we coined is creative avoidance.
- First of all, first of all, it's, it's tax avoidance.
- Today we're going to take on the topic of intimacy avoidance.
- I think as human beings, I think we think happiness is the absence and avoidance of pain.
Examples
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You are lowering your resilience to stress through avoidance and that is not the goal.
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Similarly, the avoidance of human suffering is not to be confused with individual liberty itself.
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If the other group was not to do that, there would be an avoidance of social costs.
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It's being used as escape and avoidance of the actual topic.
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I think avoidance is often more harmful than the problem.
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Successful species conservation has often been defined as simply the avoidance of extinction.
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Both individual liberty and avoidance of human suffering are part of the moral minimum of decent modern societies.
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So avoidance behavior would reduce pathogen exposure as well.
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Last night, we simulated a daily teenage ritual, homework avoidance.
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They continuously work on all sorts of disaster avoidance and recovery mechanisms.
Synonyms
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2.4
Stopping something harmful from happening
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5.8
Choosing to avoid someone or to stop something from happening
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4.9
A quick move to avoid danger
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6.3
A quick movement that lets someone escape being caught
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5.0
A quick movement to avoid someone or something, for example a ball
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7.2
Not talking to or seeing someone on purpose to show you are unhappy with them
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4.8
Making less emotional or social contact with someone
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7.2
Choosing not to take part in something, often giving up pleasures like alcohol
Stopping something bad from happening
A choice to avoid something on purpose
Stopping something before it happens by acting early
To stop problems before they happen by planning ahead
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A learned action that lets a person or animal move away before something unpleasant happens
- Specialized
A learned action an animal or person does to avoid something bad after a warning signal
How Avoidant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Avoidance comes from older words that meant to make a space or 'empty' something and is related to the English word void ('empty'); so avoidance is the action of staying away from something or keeping it out.