pre-crastination
pre-crastination is the alternative form of precrastination.
Meaning of precrastination
Noun
precrastination (usually uncountable, plural precrastinations)
- The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.
- My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later.2017, David A. Rosenbaum, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234
Forms of pre-crastination
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Questions about pre-crastination
- What is pre-crastination the alternative form of?
- Pre-crastination is the alternative form of precrastination.
Words near pre-crastination in the dictionary
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