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ELUSION

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Main Entry: avoidance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: eluding; preventing

Synonyms:

absention, circumvention, delay, departure, dodge, dodging, elusion, escape, escapism, eschewal, evasion, flight, forbearance, nonparticipation, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, shirking, shunning, steering clear of

Antonyms:

meeting
Main Entry: desertion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abandonment

Synonyms:

abrogation, absconding, apostasy, avoidance, backsliding, betrayal, castoff, defecting, departing, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, disavowal, disavowing, divorce, elusion, escape, evasion, falling away, falseness, flight, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retirement, retreat, running out on, secession, tergiversation, treachery, truancy, withdrawal

Antonyms:

aid, assistance, help, staying
Main Entry: escape
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breaking away; getaway

Synonyms:

AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, hegira, lam, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip, spring, withdrawal

Antonyms:

capture, maintenance, stay
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: escape, avoidance

Synonyms:

artifice, circumvention, cop-out, cunning, ditch*, dodge*, dodging, elusion, equivocating, equivocation, eschewal, evading, evasiveness, excuse, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, lie, obliqueness, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, shirking, shuffling, shunning, slip*, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall, subterfuge, trick, trickery

Antonyms:

directness, facing, meeting
Main Entry: fallacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illusion, misconception

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth

Antonyms:

certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth
Main Entry: run-around
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: avoidance

Synonyms:

come-off, delay, detour, difficulty, diversion, elusion, escape, escaping, eschewal, evasion, inertia, postponement, roundabout, shunning

Antonyms:

challenge, facing, meeting
Main Entry: lam
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: escape

Synonyms:

AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat*, bolt*, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, escapement, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, getaway, hegira, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip*, spring, withdrawal
Main Entry: speciousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fallacy

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, spuriousness, subterfuge, untruth
Main Entry: spuriousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fallacy

Synonyms:

aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth
Related Words
Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
avoiding, elusive, escaped, escaping, evasive, fugitive, lucifugous, neutral, runaway, shy, unattempted, unsought, wild
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