dodging vs averting

dodging and averting both are nouns.

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

As nouns, averting is a hyponym of dodging; that is, averting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dodging:

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

Other hyponyms of dodging include aversion, escape, near thing.

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