averting vs dodging

averting and dodging both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
averting	Yes	No	No	No
dodging	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dodging is a hypernym of averting; that is, dodging is a word with a broader meaning than averting:

averting: the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
dodging: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Other hypernyms of averting include avoidance, shunning, turning away.

averting (noun)	dodging (noun)
the act of preventing something from occurring	nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away	deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery