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PROCRASTINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does procrastination mean? 

PROCRASTINATION (noun)
  The noun PROCRASTINATION has 2 senses:

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

2. slowness as a consequence of not getting around to itplay

  Familiarity information: PROCRASTINATION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROCRASTINATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cunctation; procrastination; shillyshally

Hypernyms ("procrastination" is a kind of...):

delay; holdup (the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time)

Derivation:

procrastinate (postpone doing what one should be doing)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dilatoriness; procrastination

Hypernyms ("procrastination" is a kind of...):

deliberateness; deliberation; slowness; unhurriedness (a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry)

Derivation:

procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly)


 Context examples 


Procrastination is the thief of time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A personality disorder characterized by an indirect resistance to demands for adequate social and occupational performance; anger and opposition to authority and the expectations of others that is expressed covertly by obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, dawdling, forgetfulness, and intentional inefficiency.

(Passive-Aggressive Personality, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)



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