Dictionary Definition
circumvention n : the act of evading by going
around
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
\Cir`cum*ven"tion\Etymology
From circumventio.Noun
circumvention (plural: circumventions)- The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
- The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud;
deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
- A school in which he learns sly circumvention. --Cowper.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
avoidance, avoiding reaction,
bamboozlement,
befooling, bluffing, buck-passing,
calculated deception, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defense
mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dodge, duck, dupery, elusion, elusiveness, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action,
evasiveness,
fallaciousness,
fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, foiling, fond illusion, fooling, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, frustration, getting around,
getting round, hallucination, hoodwinking, illusion, jink, kidding, mirage, neutrality, nonintervention,
noninvolvement,
outguessing,
outmaneuvering,
outwitting, overreaching, passing the
buck, phantasm,
prevention, putting
on, refraining,
self-deception, shunning, shunting off,
shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, snow job, song and dance,
spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, the runaround, the
slip, thwarting,
trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, willful misconception,
wishful thinking, zigzag