A person who obsessively pursues perfection but delays finishing tasks due to overthinking or a lack of discipline. Perfocrastinists often spend excessive time tweaking, redoing, or polishing, which leads to missed deadlines or abandoned projects; not because they don’t care, but because they care too much.
“She’s such a perfocrastinist — her reports are masterpieces, but they’re always late.”
“I’ve rewritten this email seven times already… total perfocrastinist move.”
"The project stalled again because the perfocrastinist on the team is still adjusting the formatting — for the fifth time."
"He's a classic perfocrastinist; obsessed with getting everything perfect, but never actually finishes anything."
“I’ve rewritten this email seven times already… total perfocrastinist move.”
"The project stalled again because the perfocrastinist on the team is still adjusting the formatting — for the fifth time."
"He's a classic perfocrastinist; obsessed with getting everything perfect, but never actually finishes anything."
by Babine McGramma July 20, 2025
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