nonavoidance en · NOUN
Etymology
From non- + avoidance.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Absence of avoidance; failure to avoid something.
The role of the therapist is to guide the woman (and her partner) through the difficulty of approaching the penetration-related fears, to manage the associated intense fear, and to encourage nonavoidance.
2014, Yitzchak M. Binik, Kathryn S. K. Hall, Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Fifth Edition, page 186: