Prevention vs Avoidance - What's the difference?
prevention | avoidance |
(obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks; hence, precaution; forethought.
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
* Shakespeare
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 prevention and avoidance
is that prevention is the act of going, or state of being, before while avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment.prevention
English
Noun
- The greater the distance, the greater the prevention .
- (Hammond)
- (Shakespeare)
- (South)
- Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention .