Procrastination is putting off what you know you should do. Chronic procrastination, beat procrastination, procrastination sets in.
Research treats it as a problem of mood rather than of time management: people put off tasks that make them feel bad, and the delay works because it relieves the feeling now. Starting badly for five minutes is the intervention with the best evidence. Note that the Latin means putting off until tomorrow.
1nounprocrastinationPutting off what you know you should do.
“After weeks of procrastination, he wrote the whole essay the night before it was due.”
procrastination is a delaying.
Latin procrastinatio is pro plus crastinus, of tomorrow, from cras, tomorrow. The word says exactly what it does.
Latin
prōcrāstinātiō
Middle French
procrastination
English, today
procrastination
Built from
From Middle French procrastination, from Latin prōcrāstinātiō, from prōcrāstinō (“procrastinate”), from prō + crāstinus (“of tomorrow”), from crās (“tomorrow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA