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Habit of delaying
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procrastination
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off impending ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of postpone, delay or put off, especially habitually or intentionally.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time [syn: cunctation , shillyshally ] slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn: dilatoriness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French procrastination and directly from Latin procrastinationem (nominative procrastinatio ) "a putting off from day to day," noun of action from past participle stem of procrastinare "put off till tomorrow, defer, delay," from pro- ...
Usage examples of procrastination.
Procrastination at last exhausted his assistantship money at Columbia.
Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.
In this way only do the Moors shine as politicians, unless prevarication and procrastination be included, Machiavellian arts in which they easily excel.
But hoping it will not be much later and counting on those procrastinations which usually attend the departure of vessels of size I have hopes of being with you in time.
Recently he had justified his procrastination with the never-to-be-repeated opportunity to take a look at Rivermead.