What is "evasion" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "evasion": a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Noun

Meaning of "evasion": the deliberate act of failing to pay money

Noun

Meaning of "evasion": nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

Noun

Meaning of "evasion": the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

Noun

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

frankness, honesty, reality, openness, truth, directness, facing, meeting,