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procrastitivity 

Being highly productive at accomplishing tasks that have nothing to do with what you should actually be working on.

A combination of productivity and procrastination.
Today, my procrastitivity included planning our summer vacation, browsing used furniture for sale online and organizing my sock drawer; I was supposed to be finishing a client proposal.
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procrastivity

The act of being productive in something you don't actually need to be doing in order to put off the work that you should be doing.
Today I cleaned my apartment, volunteered at a soup kitchen, and finally got around to balancing my checkbook! But I didn't write that paper that's due tomorrow. Procrastivity strikes again.
procrastivity by CynickTurtle October 6, 2010

Procrastinativity 

pro·cras·ti·na·tiv·i·ty (proh-kras-tuh-nuh-tiv-i-tee) -noun

1. The inciting act of procrastination that gives birth to further procrastination.
2. That which college students everywhere participate in when reports are coming due.
So I was reviewing some background information on Wikipedia this morning, then I had a procrastinativity moment when I saw a related link to a completely unrelated topic that was nonetheless relevant to my interests. Several hours later I realized that I had to leave for class, without having done any actual work.
Procrastinativity by Mattoco May 21, 2008

Procrastinativity 

pro·cras·ti·na·tiv·i·ty (proh-kras-tuh-nuh-tiv-i-tee) -noun

1. The inciting act of procrastination that gives birth to further procrastination.
2. That which college students everywhere participate in when reports are coming due.
So I was reviewing some background information on Wikipedia this morning, then I had a procrastinativity moment when I saw a related link to a completely unrelated topic that was nonetheless relevant to my interests. Several hours later I realized that I had to leave for class, without having done any actual work.
Procrastinativity by Mattoco May 20, 2008

Procrastivity

The condition of productivity an individual may find themselves in due to avoiding a particular task.
He was avoiding his math homework, cleaning his apartment and taking out the garbage in a fit of procrastivity.
Procrastivity by procras April 21, 2014

Procrastivity

The act of getting other, often undesirable tasks done while avoiding the task that is causing procrastination.
I had an evening of procrastivity cleaning my room instead of writing the history essay.
Procrastivity by DrSpoonie October 24, 2022

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026