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Procrastination

The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.

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Delay 76% connected

A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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Deliberateness 76% connected

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

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Deliberation 76% connected

The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.

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Slowness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slow.

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Procrastinate 74% connected

To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.

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Procrastinate 74% connected

To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.

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Cunctation 92% connected

Delay; procrastination.

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Dilatoriness 92% connected

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

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Beat noun · 86% connection

a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat"

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Celerity noun · 86% connection

a rate that is rapid

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Despatch noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Dispatch noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Execution speed noun · 86% connection

(computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS

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Expedition noun · 86% connection

the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"

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Fastness noun · 86% connection

a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed"

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Fleetness noun · 86% connection

rapidity of movement; "fleetness of foot"

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Graduality noun · 86% connection

the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages

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Gradualness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages

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Haste noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hastiness noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Hurry noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Immediacy noun · 86% connection

the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"

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Immediateness noun · 86% connection

the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"

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Instancy noun · 86% connection

the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"

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Pace noun · 86% connection

the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"

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Precipitation noun · 86% connection

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"

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Access time noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

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Airy adjective · 78% connection

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

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Already adverb · 78% connection

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

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Coming adjective · 78% connection

Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

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Dally verb · 78% connection

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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Defer verb · 78% connection

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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Destine verb · 78% connection

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by a…

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Dilatory adjective · 78% connection

Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dil…

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Divination noun · 78% connection

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural mea…

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Eternity noun · 78% connection

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Extinction noun · 78% connection

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, inf…

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Future adjective · 78% connection

Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time…

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