avoidance vs near thing

avoidance and near thing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
avoidance	Yes	No	No	No
near thing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, near thing is a hyponym of avoidance; that is, near thing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than avoidance:

avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
near thing: something that barely avoids failure or disaster

Other hyponyms of avoidance include aversion, averting, escape.

avoidance (noun)	near thing (noun)
deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening	something that barely avoids failure or disaster