avoidance (n.)

• abstemiousness
• abstention
• abstinence
• asceticism
• celibacy
• chastity
• continence
• dodge
• duck
• elusion
• evasion
• fallback
• fast
• flinch
• gymnosophy
• pullback
• pullout
• recoil
• retreat
• shunning
• shy
• sidestep
• teetotalism
• vegetarianism
• wince