Avoidance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 390 anagrams from letters in avoidance (aacdeinov).
1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French; see avoid, -ance
And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance.
Pleasure is an object of desire, pain of avoidance; and the absence of pain is to be preferred to pain, but not to pleasure.
There are also promising signs from my own research that some forms of “avoidance” behavior are on the wane.
But those who worked with Charles in advertising say that his avoidance of contact was not shyness, but a deliberate campaign.
Existential crisis in this reading is not an apprehension of reality, but a symptom of its avoidance.
There was a pause, and whilst his eyes were upon hers, hers were upon the ground in avoidance of his glance.
The real advisers to the Ready for Hillary organization are almost comically precise in their avoidance of the term “campaign.”
According to experts, procrastinators engage in “avoidance motivation.”
Mackenzie determined there was not going to be any avoidance on his part.
For the purpose of all their delays had been compromise, and their hope was the avoidance of bloodshed.
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