eschewal

noun eschewal

• avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
• abstention — Abstention is a formal act of not voting either for or against a proposal.
• refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• refrainment — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.