procrastination

English

Etymology

From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /-ʃn̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

procrastination (usually uncountable, plural procrastinations)

1. The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
   • 1742, [Edward Young], “Night the First”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:

     Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.

     read on Google Books. This version is page 393

Synonyms

• (act of postponing): deferral, prolongation; see also Thesaurus:deferment

Antonyms

• precrastination

Derived terms

• bedtime procrastination
• procrastination is the thief of time

Related terms

• procrastinate

Translations

act of postponing, delaying or putting off

Afrikaans: uitstel Arabic: تَسْوِيف m (taswīf), تَأْجِيل (ar) m (taʔjīl) Armenian: պրոկրաստինացիա (prokrastinacʻia) Asturian: procrastinación f Azerbaijani: ertələmə, yubatma Basque: prokrastinazio Bulgarian: отла́гане (bg) n (otlágane), отсро́чване (bg) n (otsróčvane), прокрастинация f (prokrastinacija) Catalan: procrastinació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 耽擱 / 耽搁 (zh) (dāngē), 拖延 (zh) (tuōyán) Czech: odkládání n, prokrastinace (cs) f Danish: udsættelse (da) c, overspringshandling (da) c, prokrastinering Dutch: uitstel (nl) n, uitstelgedrag (nl) n, procrastinatie (nl) f Esperanto: prokrasto Estonian: prokrastinatsioon Finnish: lykkäys (fi), jahkailu (fi), viivyttely (fi), vitkastelu (fi), aikailu (fi), kuhnailu (fi), aikaansaamattomuus (fi) French: procrastination (fr) f Galician: nugalla (gl) f, larcha f, doca (gl) f, procrastinación (gl) f German: Aufschub (de) m, Prokrastination (de) f Greek: αναβλητικότητα (el) f (anavlitikótita) Hebrew: דחיינות Hindi: दीर्घसूत्रता (hi) (dīrghasūtratā) Hungarian: halogatás (hu), késlekedés (hu) Indonesian: penundaan (id), prokrastinasi Italian: procrastinazione (it) f Japanese: 先延ばし (ja) (さきのばし, sakinobashi), 遅滞 (ja) (ちたい, chitai) Kannada: ವಿಳಂಬನ (viḷambana) Korean: 지연행동 (jiyeonhaengdong) Latin: morōsitās f (Mediaeval), prōcrāstinātiō f Lithuanian: atidėliojimas m, vilkinimas Malayalam: വൈകിക്കുക (ml) (vaikikkuka) Maori: tonanawetanga Norwegian: Bokmål: prokrastinering m Polish: zwłoka (pl) f, prokrastynacja (pl) f Portuguese: procrastinação (pt) f Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰੋਕ੍ਰਾਸਟ੍ਰੀਨੇਸ਼ਨ (prokrāsṭrīneśan) Romanian: amânare (ro) f, procrastinare (ro) f Russian: откла́дывание (ru) n (otkládyvanije), отсро́чка (ru) f (otsróčka), промедле́ние (ru) n (promedlénije), проволо́чка (ru) f (provolóčka), прокрастина́ция (ru) f (prokrastinácija) Scottish Gaelic: màirnealachd f Sinhalese: කල් දැමීම (kal dæmīma) Slovak: prokrastinácia f Slovene: prokrastinacija f Spanish: desidia (es) f, dejar algo para más tarde, para mañana..., procrastinación (es) f Swedish: förhalning, förhalande (sv), prokrastinering (sv) Tagalog: pagpapaliban, pagpapabukas-bukas Tamil: தள்ளிப்போடுதல் (ta) (taḷḷippōṭutal) Thai: การผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง (th), การผัด (th) Turkish: ertelemecilik Ukrainian: прокрастина́ція f (prokrastynácija), відкладання на потім (vidkladannja na potim), зволіка́ння n (zvolikánnja) Uzbek: prokrastinatsiya Vietnamese: trì hoãn (vi) Yiddish: אָפּלייגעכץ n (opleygekhts)

Further reading

• procrastination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōcrāstinātiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

procrastination f (plural procrastinations)

1. procrastination

Further reading

• “procrastination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.