precrastination
/pɹiːˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later."
- "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 precrastination effect is the finding that individuals complete actions earlier to "get it out of the way" (Rosenbaum, Gong, & Potts, 2014). In the current study, we tested precrastination with a prospective memory (PM) paradigm to determine if this phenomenon generalizes to PM tasks that can be completed at a time chosen by the participant."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹiːˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
- British English: /pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/