obviation in English
noun
[ob·vi·a·tion || ‚ɑbvɪ'eɪʃn /‚ɒb-]
act of obviating; anticipation and elimination of a problem or hardship
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1. Across languages, obviation almost always involves the third person (although second-person obviation is reported for some Nilo-Saharan languages), and the direct–inverse alternation is usually presented as being a way of marking the proximate–obviative distinction between two (or more) third person arguments of a sentence.