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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for procrastination:

1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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]

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