'Procrastination' definitions:
Definition of 'procrastination'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time [syn: procrastination, cunctation, shillyshally]
noun
Slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn: dilatoriness, procrastination]
Definition of 'Procrastination'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'procrastination'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Fabian policy,
- 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,
- Micawberism,
- 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