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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


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]
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]
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