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Etymology

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delay +‎ -ism

Noun

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delayism (uncountable)

  1. A tendency to delay.
    • 1990, M. Habibullah, Growth Problems of a Developing Economy, page 49:
      This is reflected in the go-slow policy and delayism.
    • 2020 September 10, Sara Hastings-Simon, “Beware of climate delay, masquerading as climate action”, in CBC[1]:
      But a closer consideration of the technologies involved, and the gap in the deployment of other, more realistic technologies, shows it's better understood as a form of climate delayism.

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