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Avoiding vs Ignoring - What's the difference?

avoiding | ignoring |

As verbs the difference between avoiding and ignoring

is that avoiding is present participle of lang=en while ignoring is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between avoiding and ignoring

is that avoiding is avoidance while ignoring is the act by which something is ignored.

avoiding

English

Verb

(head)
    • Have you been avoiding me?'' ''(as progressive form of avoid)
    I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact.'' ''(as present participle)
    I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact.'' ''(as gerund)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • avoidance
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    • ignoring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ignored.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
    • We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S'' does not ignore them. ''S'' is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because ''S never knew much of anything.

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