Definition of Obviation

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act of obviating; anticipation and elimination of a problem or hardship
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n.)
The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.
  
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obviation
\ob`vi*a"tion\ (?), n. the act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.

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Noun
1. the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively
(synonym) forestalling, preclusion
(hypernym) prevention, bar
(derivation) obviate, rid of, eliminate
Obviation Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Obviation may refer to:
  • A linguistic process involving the obviative case
  • Bypass (disambiguation)

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