Procrastination \Pro*cras`ti*na"tion\, n. [L. procrastinatio:
cf. F. procrastination.]
The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a
future time; delay; dilatoriness.
[1913 Webster]
Procrastination is the thief of time. --Young.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
procrastination
n 1: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or
defering an action to a later time [syn: cunctation, shillyshally]
2: slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn:
dilatoriness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "procrastination":
Fabian policy, Micawberism, a wise passiveness, backwardness,
contemplation, contemplative life, continuation, culpa,
culpable negligence, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, default,
dereliction, dilatoriness, dillydallying, disregard,
do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy,
extension, failure, hesitation, hold-off, idleness, immobility,
inaction, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention,
indolence, inertia, inertness, laches, lag, lagging, laissez-aller,
laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lapse, laxity, laxness,
lengthening, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, looseness,
meditation, mugwump, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence,
neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference,
noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance,
nonrestriction, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, omission,
overlooking, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance,
passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity,
permissiveness, policy, poor stewardship, prolongation,
protraction, quiescence, quietism, remissness, shilly-shallying,
slackness, slight, slowness, stagnancy, stagnation, stall,
standpattism, stasis, tarrying, temporization, unrigorousness,
vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game,
watching and waiting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cunctation, dilatoriness, shillyshally
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