Definition for Evasion:

• nonperformance of something distasteful ( as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; " his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; " that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"

Synonyms for Evasion:

• n.

  •
  • failure,
  • sidestep,
  • suspended animation,
  • stagnation,
  • delay,
  • inertia.
  •
  • evade,
  • hedge,
  • intimate,
  • bypass,
  • mince (your) words,
  • obliqueness,
  • convey,
  • skirt,
  • imply,
  • parry,
  • get at.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • desertion.
  •act (noun)
  • nonpayment.
  •antipathy (noun)
  • antagonism,
  • loathing,
  • hate,
  • opposition,
  • allergy,
  • enmity,
  • bad blood,
  • contrariety,
  • Repellency,
  • rancor,
  • animosity,
  • repulsion,
  • ill will,
  • aversion,
  • animus,
  • hostility,
  • incompatibility,
  • avoidance,
  • repugnance,
  • distaste,
  • abhorrence.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • disdain,
  • recoil,
  • passive resistance,
  • restraint,
  • circumvention,
  • nonparticipation,
  • escapism,
  • flight,
  • absention,
  • retreat,
  • declination,
  • shirking,
  • steering clear of,
  • dodge,
  • departure,
  • prevention,
  • recession,
  • elusion,
  • self-restraint,
  • forbearance,
  • abstinence.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • deception,
  • delusion,
  • chicanery.
  •circumvention (noun)
  • by pass,
  • eludings,
  • by passes,
  • circumventings.
  •cover-up (noun)
  • complicity,
  • masking,
  • concealment,
  • camouflage,
  • Disguising,
  • front,
  • conspiracy,
  • whitewash,
  • burial.
  •dereliction (noun)
  • nonperformance,
  • Non-performance.
  •desertion (noun)
  • disaffection,
  • defecting,
  • betrayal,
  • divorce,
  • derelict,
  • relinquishment,
  • departing,
  • withdrawal,
  • abrogation,
  • Absconding,
  • apostasy,
  • forsaking,
  • treachery,
  • tergiversation,
  • retirement,
  • truancy,
  • Disavowing,
  • Marooning,
  • going back on,
  • leaving,
  • secession,
  • renunciation,
  • Recreancy,
  • backsliding,
  • resignation,
  • rejection,
  • repudiation.
  •device (noun)
  • fake,
  • pattern,
  • cabal,
  • strategy,
  • plan,
  • gambit,
  • stunt,
  • loophole,
  • finesse,
  • design,
  • wile,
  • expedient,
  • plot,
  • method,
  • game,
  • project,
  • trap,
  • craftiness,
  • craft,
  • racket,
  • stratagem,
  • purpose,
  • machination,
  • gimmick,
  • improvisation,
  • proposition.
  •dodging (noun)
  • quibble.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • cover,
  • double meaning,
  • fibbing,
  • doubtfulness,
  • duplicity,
  • hedging,
  • misrepresentation,
  • quibbling routine,
  • distortion,
  • lying,
  • amphibology,
  • cop out,
  • ambiguity,
  • song and dance,
  • waffle,
  • double entendre,
  • shufflings,
  • con,
  • fib,
  • double talk,
  • equivocality,
  • deceit,
  • coloring.
  •equivoque (noun)
  • in-definiteness,
  • un-clearness,
  • un clearness,
  • in-definitenesses,
  • in definiteness,
  • stonewallings,
  • un clearnesses,
  • un-clearnesses,
  • in definitenesses,
  • ambiguous statements.
  •escape (noun)
  • deliverance,
  • breakout,
  • lam,
  • extrication,
  • elusiveness,
  • abdication,
  • break,
  • decampment,
  • powder,
  • elopement,
  • disappearance,
  • emigration,
  • awol,
  • ducking,
  • out,
  • getaway,
  • rescue,
  • bypassing,
  • beat,
  • fadeout,
  • spring,
  • release,
  • slip,
  • hegira,
  • sidestepping,
  • freedom,
  • liberation,
  • runaround,
  • leave,
  • bolt,
  • outbreak.
  •escapement (noun)
  • breaking aways.
  •euphemism (noun)
  • euphemism.
  •evasion (noun)
  • pretext,
  • routine,
  • sophism,
  • shuffling,
  • run-around,
  • shunning,
  • artifice,
  • fugivity,
  • sophistry,
  • dodging,
  • cunning,
  • Evading,
  • Fudging,
  • evasiveness,
  • stonewall,
  • fugiviteness,
  • stall,
  • prevarication,
  • fancy footwork,
  • ruse,
  • trickery,
  • Equivocating.
  •excuse (noun)
  • fish story,
  • rationalization,
  • extenuation,
  • semblance,
  • grounds,
  • defense,
  • mitigation,
  • justification,
  • apology,
  • regrets,
  • vindication,
  • plea,
  • story,
  • substitute,
  • alibi,
  • makeshift,
  • disguise.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • in-consistency,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • un-truths,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • inexactnesses,
  • faultinesses,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • quibblings,
  • pre-conception,
  • in exactnesses,
  • mis calculation,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in validities,
  • un truths,
  • mis takes,
  • un-truth,
  • pre conception,
  • mis take,
  • non sequiturs,
  • un truth,
  • in exactness,
  • in consistencies,
  • mis-calculations,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis interpretation,
  • misconstruals,
  • in-consistencies,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • in-validity,
  • mis-calculation,
  • mis interpretations,
  • in-exactness,
  • mis calculations,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • mis apprehension,
  • mis-take,
  • in consistency,
  • in-validities,
  • in validity.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • untruth.
  •pretense (noun)
  • feignings,
  • pre-tense,
  • pre-tenses,
  • in sincerities,
  • in-sincerities,
  • fakeries,
  • fakings,
  • doubledealing,
  • dis plays,
  • in-sincerity,
  • in sincerity,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis-play,
  • dumb acts,
  • makebelieve,
  • schticks,
  • dis play,
  • pre tense,
  • posings,
  • pre tenses.
  •quibble (noun)
  • Quiddities,
  • niggle,
  • hair-splitter,
  • hairsplitters,
  • Hairsplitter,
  • quiddity,
  • nit-picker.
  •run-around (noun)
  • Escaping,
  • come-off,
  • run around,
  • roundabouts.
  •shift (noun)
  • re source,
  • re-sources,
  • re-courses,
  • re sources,
  • re course,
  • re-course,
  • re-sort,
  • re-sorts,
  • re courses,
  • re-source.
  •trick (noun)
  • de coy,
  • de-coys,
  • de coys,
  • de-coy.
  •weasel word (noun)
  • misleading words,
  • confusing statements,
  • wafflings,
  • suppressio veris,
  • misleading statements,
  • equivocal sayings,
  • weasel-word.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inaction,
  • footdragging,
  • standstill,
  • stasis.
  •
  • quiescent.
  •circumlocution
  • periphrasis.

Paraphrases for Evasion:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deception.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    getaway, diversion.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    fraud, Frauds.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    avoidance, circumvention, prevarication, jailbreak, disqualification, leakage, cheating, Non-payment, smuggling, fraud, leak, break-out, scam.

Antonyms for Evasion:

• n.

  • act
    payment.
  • antipathy
    approval, admiration, liking, esteem, respect, sympathy, love, honor, appreciation, like, rapport, regard.
  • desertion
    aid, Staying, assistance, help.
  • escape
    maintenance, stay, capture.
  • evasion
    facing, meeting, directness.
  • Other antonyms:
    abidance, toleration, endurance, submission.

Evasion Sentence Examples:

• Privately he had spoken thus, but before the world he had given way to no impulse, in silence finding safety from the temptation to diplomatic evasion.

• I got away quite easily, in the usual way, through a paid Evasion Agency.

Homophones for Evasion:

• epicine, Ephesan, epizoon, epigone, effusion, epizoan, euphuism, Ephesian, epicene, epigon.

Hypernym for Evasion:

• n.

  • act
    eluding, manoeuvre, maneuver, evasive action, tax evasion, dodge, elusion, slip.

Hyponym for Evasion:

• n.

  • act
    commercialism, commerce, flight, escape, mercantilism.