Procrastination vs Prevarication - What's the difference?
procrastination | prevarication |
The act of postponing]], delaying or [[put off, putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
* 1742 , I, 1,
Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
* Cowper
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012,
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
As nouns the difference between procrastination and prevarication
is that procrastination is the act of postponing, delaying or putting off, especially habitually or intentionally while prevarication is deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.procrastination
English
(wikipedia procrastination)Noun
(en-noun)393
- Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.
Derived terms
* procrastination is the thief of timeprevarication
English
Noun
(en noun)- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (Cowell)