near thing vs dodging

near thing and dodging both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

near thing (noun)	dodging (noun)
something that barely avoids failure or disaster	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