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Unavoidable vs Avoidance - What's the difference?

unavoidable | avoidance |

As nouns the difference between unavoidable and avoidance

is that unavoidable is something that cannot be avoided while avoidance is the act of annulling; annulment.

As an adjective unavoidable

is impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

unavoidable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
  • (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
  • (Blackstone)

    Usage notes

    * See usage notes at inevitable.

    Synonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

    Antonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) avoidable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be avoided.
  • * 1825 , The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
  • Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least

    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.
  • *
  • *: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.