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Avoidant vs Procrastination - What's the difference?

avoidant | procrastination |

As nouns the difference between avoidant and procrastination

is that avoidant is a person who exhibits avoidance while procrastination is the act of postponing]], delaying or [[put off|putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.

As an adjective avoidant

is exhibiting avoidance.

avoidant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting avoidance

    • Derived terms

    * avoidantly * avoidant personality

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who exhibits avoidance.
  • * 2011 , Samuel Barondes, Making Sense of People (page 46)
    • But unlike schizoids, with whom they are sometimes confused, avoidants are actually eager to socialize. The reason they hang back is their worry that they are personally unappealing

    procrastination

    English

    (wikipedia procrastination)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of postponing]], delaying or [[put off, putting off, especially habitually or intentionally.
  • * 1742 , I, 1, 393
    • Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.

    Derived terms

    * procrastination is the thief of time