avoidability
Can be prevented
Avoidability is the quality of being preventable or escapable.
The word appears most often in legal and insurance contexts, where determining whether harm was avoidable affects liability: The court considered the avoidability of the accident.
In everyday use, it questions whether something unpleasant could have been sidestepped: Given the avoidability of the whole mess, his choices seem inexcusable.
Escape by cunning
- eludeSkillfully avoid capture
- dodgeAvoid by quick movement
- sidestepEvade by moving aside
- circumventAvoid by going around
bypass · avert · shun · skirt · deflect · swerve · divert · parry
Capable of being stopped
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- safeguardPrecaution against harm
- countermeasureDefense against a threat
- deterrencePrevention via threatened consequences
preemption · preclusion · mitigation · prophylaxis · screening · shielding · warding · precaution
Careful, wise judgment
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- vigilanceState of keen awareness
- warinessCautious distrust
- circumspectionCareful consideration of consequences
heedfulness · carefulness · alertness · mindfulness · anticipation · precaution · deliberation · judiciousness
Able to be controlled
- controllableAble to be regulated
- modifiableAble to be changed
- adjustableAble to be changed
- alterableAble to be changed
correctable · rectifiable · reversible · changeable · amendable · resolvable · surmountable · treatable
Impossible to avoid
- inevitableCertain to occur
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
- unstoppableImpossible to halt
- irreversibleCannot be undone
certain · fated · predetermined · fixed · immutable · inexorable · ineluctable · bound
evade
Escape by cunning
circumvent · bypass · avert · shun · skirt · deflect · swerve · divert · parry · duck
preventable
Capable of being stopped
- interventionPurposeful involvement to change course
- safeguardPrecaution against harm
- countermeasureDefense against a threat
deterrence · preemption · preclusion · mitigation · prophylaxis · screening · shielding · warding · precaution · proactive
prudence
Careful, wise judgment
circumspection · heedfulness · carefulness · alertness · mindfulness · anticipation · precaution · deliberation · judiciousness · forethought
manageable
Able to be controlled
- controllableAble to be regulated
- modifiableAble to be changed
- adjustableAble to be changed
alterable · correctable · rectifiable · reversible · changeable · amendable · resolvable · surmountable · treatable · reducible
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- inevitableCertain to occur
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
- unstoppableImpossible to halt
irreversible · certain · fated · predetermined · fixed · immutable · inexorable · ineluctable · bound · destined
avoidabilityinevitability
Quality of being unavoidable
unavoidability · inescapability · ineluctability · inexorability · necessity
avoidabilityunavoidability
State of being certain
inescapability · helplessness · powerlessness · compulsion · obligation
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State of being certain
compulsoriness · unavoidability · seek out · look for · pursuit