near thing vs shunning

near thing and shunning both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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