Usually means: Delay or procrastination; slow to act.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilatoriness: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilatoriness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilatoriness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dilatoriness: Vocabulary.com
  5. dilatoriness: Wordnik
  6. dilatoriness: Wiktionary
  7. Dilatoriness, dilatoriness: Dictionary.com
  8. Dilatoriness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. dilatoriness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. dilatoriness: Rhymezone
  11. Dilatoriness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dilatoriness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. dilatoriness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dilatoriness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. dilatoriness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilatoriness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dilatoriness)

▸ noun:  The state or quality of being dilatory.

Similar:
procrastination, undilatoriness, dilatedness, diluteness, diligentness, indiligence, dilatancy, delayability, delayism, slowness, more...

Opposite:
promptness, punctuality, timeliness, efficiency

Adjectives:
usual, own, such, apparent, certain, extreme, natural, great, much, spanish, proverbial

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Similar:
procrastination, undilatoriness, dilatedness, diluteness, diligentness, indiligence, dilatancy, delayability, delayism, slowness, more...

Opposite:
promptness, punctuality, timeliness, efficiency

Adjectives:
usual, own, such, apparent, certain, extreme, natural, great, much, spanish, proverbial



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