procrastination

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
• 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 Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality I, 1, 393

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

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• precrastination

Derived terms

• procrastination is the thief of time

Related terms

• procrastinate

Translations

act of postponing, delaying or putting off

• Arabic: تَسْوِيف m (taswīf), تَأْجِيل (ar) m (taʔjīl)
• Azerbaijani: ertələmə, yubatma
• Bulgarian: отла́гане (bg) n (otlágane), отсро́чване (bg) n (otsróčvane)
• Catalan: procrastinació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耽擱／耽搁 (zh), 耽搁 (zh) (dāngē), 拖延 (zh) (tuōyán)

• Czech: odkládání n, prokrastinace (cs) f
• Danish: udsættelse c, overspringshandling c
• Dutch: uitstel (nl) n, uitstelgedrag (nl) n, procrastinatie (nl) f
• Finnish: lykkäys (fi), jahkailu (fi), viivyttely (fi), vitkastelu (fi), aikailu (fi), kuhnailu (fi)
• French: procrastination (fr) f
• Galician: nugalla (gl) f, larcha f, doca (gl) f
• German: Aufschub (de) m, Prokrastination (de) f
• Hungarian: halogatás, késlekedés (hu)
• Indonesian: penundaan (id)
• Italian: procrastinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 先延ばし (さきのばし, sakinobashi), 遅滞 (ja) (ちたい, chitai)
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• Latin: morōsitās f (Mediaeval), prōcrāstinātiō f
• Lithuanian: atidėliojimas m
• Maori: tonanawetanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prokrastinering m

• Polish: zwłoka (pl) f
• Portuguese: procrastinação (pt) f
• Romanian: amânare (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
• Spanish: desidia (es) f, dejar algo para más tarde, para mañana..., procrastinación (es) f
• Swedish: förhalning, förhalande (sv), prokrastinering
• Tagalog: pagpapaliban, pagpapabukas-bukas
• Thai: การผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง (th), การผัด (th)
• Ukrainian: прокрастина́ція f (prokrastynácija), відкладання на потім (vidkladannja na potim)

Further reading

• procrastination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōcrāstinātiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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.