elusion (n.)

• avoidance
• circumvention
• dodge
• duck
• elusiveness
• equivocation
• escape
• evasion
• evasiveness
• foiling
• forbearance
• forestalling
• frustration
• neutrality
• nonintervention
• prevention
• shunning
• shy
• sidestep
• slip
• thwarting
• zigzag