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What is the difference between evasion and avoidance?

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As nouns the difference between evasion and avoidance

is that evasion is the act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding while avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment.

evasion

English

Noun

  • The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
  • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.

    Synonyms

    * equivocation * prevarication * shift * subterfuge * shuffling

    Derived terms

    * tax evasion

    References

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    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.
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  • *: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.