avoidance vs dodging

avoidance and dodging both are nouns.

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

As nouns, avoidance and dodging are synonyms defined as:

avoidance and dodging: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

Other synonyms of avoidance include shunning, turning away.

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