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Evasion vs Resistance - What's the difference?

evasion | resistance |

As nouns the difference between evasion and resistance

is that evasion is evasion while resistance is resistance (all meanings).

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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    resistance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * resistaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

  • The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}
  • (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
  • (physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
  • An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

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