Usually means: Making something unnecessary or irrelevant.
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  10. obviation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  The act of obviating; deterrence or prevention.

Similar:
preclusion, forestalling, deobstruction, deterrent, devitation, veto, deterrence, disobstruction, averter, abator, more...

Types:
prevention, avoidance, dissuasion, deterrence, more...

Adjectives:
subject, symbolic, such, local, subjunctive

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Similar:
preclusion, forestalling, deobstruction, deterrent, devitation, veto, deterrence, disobstruction, averter, abator, more...

Types:
prevention, avoidance, dissuasion, deterrence, more...

Adjectives:
subject, symbolic, such, local, subjunctive



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