AVOIDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avoidance mean? 

• AVOIDANCE (noun)
  The noun AVOIDANCE has 1 sense:

1. deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

  Familiarity information: AVOIDANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVOIDANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away

Hypernyms ("avoidance" is a kind of...):

rejection (the act of rejecting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avoidance"):

aversion; averting (the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away)

escape (an avoidance of danger or difficulty)

near thing (something that barely avoids failure or disaster)

Derivation:

avoid (stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something)

 Context examples 

The appropriate signaling through the insulin pathway is critical for the regulation of glucose levels and the avoidance of diabetes.

(Insulin Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Only 4.8 percent of the children who had regularly consumed peanut-containing foods during LEAP were allergic to peanut following the year of peanut avoidance.

(Benefits of peanut allergy prevention strategy persist after one-year peanut avoidance, NIH)

Currently, the only treatment for red meat allergy once it is diagnosed is strict avoidance of red meat.

(Researchers have found a link between allergen in red meat and heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

This is the first collision avoidance maneuver that the MAVEN spacecraft has performed at Mars to steer clear of Phobos.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

The disorder is characterized by dissociative symptoms; vivid recollections of the traumatic event; avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event; and a constant state of hyperarousal for no more than one month.

(Acute Stress Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of avoidance of social situations and interpersonal contact due to overwhelming feelings of social inadequacy and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation or rejection.

(Avoidant Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Some types of cancer-related avoidance include refusing to accept a cancer diagnosis or get treatment, and using alcohol or other drugs to forget about having cancer.

(Avoidance, NCI Dictionary)

A mental disorder characterized by inattention, easy distraction, careless mistakes and avoidance of tasks that require sustained mental focus.

(Attention Deficit Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Human attitudes and behaviors related to health; e.g., diet, exercise, care-seeking, substance avoidance, therapy compliance, etc.

(Health Behavior, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

This taste aversion not only induces rejection and avoidance, but also loss of appetite.

(Researchers identify area of the amygdala involved in taste aversion, University of Granada)