Procrastination

Noun

 * 1) The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
 * 2) * 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality I, 1, 393
 * Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.

Derived terms

 * procrastination is the thief of time

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From procrastinatio:, from procrastino:, from pro: + crastinus: < cras:.

Translations

 * Arabic: تأجيل
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 耽擱, 耽搁,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, uitstelgedrag, procrastinatie
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: halogatás, késlekedés


 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: procrastinazione
 * Polish: zwłoka
 * Portuguese: procrastinação
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, dejar algo para más tarde, para mañana..., procrastinación
 * Swedish: förhalning, förhalande,