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What is the single word for having a 'Habit or Attitude of always postoning work for a later time'
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Hi, in the English Collins dictionary there is the word used in many countries for this accommodating habit: mañana.
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welcome, arch!
procrastinating? or lazy?
or perhaps there just isn't a one-word solution....
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"Postponer" or of course "procrastinator" fit exactly if you're willing to settle for a noun. Otherwise if you're willing to wade through them,
http://onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=postpone-work
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you don't like procrastination? how about dilitariness? or cunctation?!
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Will look it up after I've done this post. At first sight cunctation looks like meaning 'a conspiracy'.
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you don't like procrastination? how about dilitariness? or cunctation?! dilatoriness, perhaps? or is dilitariness someone in the army that has a hard time getting going?
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no, dilitariness is 'can't be bothered to pay any attention to Wordsmith's spell-check, because it's usually wrong anyway'.
-joe (like there, it just complained about "Wordsmith's") friday
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Wordsmith has a spell checker?
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