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precrastinations

precrastinations is the plural of precrastination.

Meaning of precrastination

Noun

precrastination (usually uncountable, plural precrastinations)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about precrastinations

What is precrastinations the plural of?
Precrastinations is the plural of precrastination.

Words near precrastinations in the dictionary

  1. precrastinate
  2. precrastinated
  3. precrastinates
  4. precrastinating
  5. precrastination
  6. precrastinations
  7. precrawling
  8. precrease
  9. precreased
  10. precreases
  11. precreasing

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