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Procrastination

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act or habit of procrastinating; a putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

n. slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

Word Usage

"To be sure, there are many more underlying causes to what we call procrastination, most of which require keen self awareness and the willingness to learn and grow."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

holdup delay deliberateness slowness deliberation

Form

procrastination is the thief of time

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

delay dilatoriness deferment

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

equivocation vacillation shiftlessness listlessness pusillanimity