avoiding

present participle and gerund of avoidform-ofgerundparticiple

• Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)
• I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)

Avoidance.

• Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.