near thing vs avoidance

near thing and avoidance both are nouns.

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

As nouns, avoidance is a hypernym of near thing; that is, avoidance is a word with a broader meaning than near thing:

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

Other hypernyms of near thing include dodging, shunning, turning away.

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