postponement, instance of putting something off until later; deferment, delay
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Procrastination Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
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\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. procrastination is the thief of time.
Delay.
Noun
1. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
(synonym) cunctation, shillyshally
(hypernym) delay, holdup
(derivation) procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
2. slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
(synonym) dilatoriness
(hypernym) slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
(derivation) procrastinate
Procrastination Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time. In accordance with Freud, the Pleasure principle (psychology) may be responsible for procrastination; humans do not prefer negative emotions and handing off a stressful task until a further date is enjoyable. The concept that humans work best under pressure provides additional enjoyment and motivation to postponing a task. Some psychologists cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. Other psychologists indicate that anxiety is just as likely to get people to start working early as late and the focus should be impulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.
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