From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).
procrastination (usually uncountable, plural procrastinations)
- The act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
1742, [Edward Young], “Night the”, in The Complaint, London: […] , →OCLC:Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.
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 (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)
- Uzbek: prokrastinatsiya
- Vietnamese: trì hoãn (vi)
- Yiddish: אָפּלייגעכץ n (opleygekhts)
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Borrowed from Latin prōcrāstinātiōnem.
procrastination f (plural procrastinations)
- procrastination