dilatoriness
- noun
- /dɪˈleɪtəˌrɪnəs/
- Archaic
:
dilación
- Due to her dilatoriness in submitting the application, she missed the deadline for enrollment.
Examples
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The dilatoriness of the committee in making decisions frustrated many of the members.
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"An outsider might well see in all this an attempt to sabotage by dilatoriness and for tactical and diplomatic reasons the mission entrusted to you by the pope," Gundlach wrote La Farge, who had returned to the United States.
Academic text (1998) -
It is owing, let me repeat, neither to any dilatoriness whatever on our visitor's part nor to transoceanic air-traffic problems, but solely to the extraordinary security measures that, alas, necessarily attend and not infrequently impede the woman's every movement.
Fiction book (1995) -
His dilatoriness in finishing the project led to severe consequences for the entire team.
Synonyms
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4.8
Delaying tasks you should do until later
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1.1
A state when something moves or happens less quickly than usual
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6.5
Slow, unnecessary movement or delay that wastes time
Delaying action to gain time and avoid making a decision
Antonyms
How Slow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dilatoriness comes from the Latin verb dilatare, which meant 'to delay' or 'to put off' and is the same root as the English word delay. So dilatoriness is the habit of postponing things or acting slowly.