Neglect vs Avoidance - What's the difference?
neglect | avoidance |
(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
(label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
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, title= The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
Habitual lack of care.
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.
As nouns the difference between neglect and avoidance
is that neglect is the act of neglecting while avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment.As a verb neglect
is (label) to fail to care for or attend to something.neglect
English
Verb
(en verb)- I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
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