dilatoriness

English

Etymology

From dilatory +‎ -ness.

Noun

dilatoriness (usually uncountable, plural dilatorinesses)

  1. The state or quality of being dilatory.
    • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
      Nor when he got home was he much more inclined to any resolute line of action […] for he got no pen and paper, and he dawdled over his teacup with the utmost dilatoriness, putting off, as it were, the evil day.

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