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procrastination

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Synonyms and Antonyms of procrastination

a state, a habit, or an instance of being slow or late about doing something that should be done

Though she has a tendency towards procrastination, she never fails to turn in her papers on time.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of procrastination

avoidance, delay, waiting

equivocation, hawing

arrière-pensée, misgiving, second thought

consideration, debate, deliberation, doubt, incertitude, indecisiveness, indetermination, uncertainness, uncertainty

aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness

faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling)

faintheartedness, shyness

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of procrastination

alacrity, eagerness, readiness

certainty, certitude, confidence, decisiveness, determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolution, sureness

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