Precaution vs Avoidance - What's the difference?
precaution | avoidance |
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution.
* John Henry Newman
A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
(transitive): To warn or caution beforehand. --.
(rare): To take precaution against. --.
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 precaution and avoidance
is that precaution is precaution while avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment.precaution
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ancient philosophers treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution .
- to take precautions against risks of accident