avoidance

Other forms of avoidance

plural

avoidances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about avoidance

What does avoidance mean?

avoidance means "deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening".

How many syllables are in avoidance?

avoidance has 3 syllables: a-voi-dance. The stress falls on "voi". In IPA it is /əˈvɔɪdəns/.

What is another word for avoidance?

Close synonyms include turning away, shunning, dodging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avoidance a common word?

avoidance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.