different between avoiding vs ignoring

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avoiding

Present participle and gerund of avoid.
Have you been avoiding me? (as progressive form of avoid)
I noted his carefully avoiding eye contact. (as present participle)
I noted his careful avoiding of eye contact. (as gerund)

avoiding (plural avoidings)

ignoring

ignoring (plural ignorings)

The act by which something is ignored.
- 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)
  Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- 1999, David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
  We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.

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