procrastination

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
procrastination
    n 1: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or
         defering an action to a later time [syn: {procrastination},
         {cunctation}, {shillyshally}]
    2: slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn:
       {dilatoriness}, {procrastination}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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