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Avoidance vs Avoidant - What's the difference?

avoidance | avoidant |

As nouns the difference between avoidance and avoidant

is that avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment while avoidant is a person who exhibits avoidance.

As an adjective avoidant is

exhibiting avoidance.

avoidance

English

Alternative forms

* avoidaunce (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The act of annulling; annulment.
  • 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.
  • A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
  • The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Any thing that is to be avoided
  • The courts by which anything is carried off.

    • avoidant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exhibiting avoidance

    • Derived terms

    * avoidantly * avoidant personality

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who exhibits avoidance.
  • * 2011 , Samuel Barondes, Making Sense of People (page 46)
    • But unlike schizoids, with whom they are sometimes confused, avoidants are actually eager to socialize. The reason they hang back is their worry that they are personally unappealing