Synonyms:
avoidance, turning_away, shunning, dodging
Meaning: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
Usage examples
The avoidance of certain kinds of work which, by social convention, come to be regarded as degrading, takes much ability out of business.
He bore the external appearance of respectable poverty; he carried a gingham umbrella, preserved in an oilskin case; he picked his steps, with the neatest avoidance of all dirty places on the pavement; and he surveyed the scene around him with eyes of two different colors--a bilious brown eye on the lookout for employment, and a bilious green eye in a similar predicament.