dilatoriness

noun

dilatoriness

noun

Etymology From dilatory + -ness.

1

Usually The state or quality of being dilatory.

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.1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

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