precrastination

noun
/pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/UK/pɹiːˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/US

Etymology

Blend of pre- + procrastination, q.v.

Definitions

  1. The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome

    The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.

    • Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts, the two students with whom I did this work, and I conducted a number of experiments to check our precrastination interpretation.
    • It is foreseeable that if we do not enjoy the process involved in completing a task, we will choose procrastination or precrastination to minimize the time we need to spend to do a task.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precrastination. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA