Proluctance

Proluctance

n.
the paradoxical urge to avoid doing something you’ve been looking forward to—opening a decisive letter, meeting up with a friend who’s finally back in town, reading a new book from your favorite author—perpetually waiting around for the right state of mind, stretching out the bliss of anticipation as long as you can.

Latin pro-, forward + reluctans, resisting. Pronounced “proh-luhk-tuhns.”

The Meantime

Trueholding

Proluctance

Emodox

Indosentia

Apolytus

The Wends

Elsing

Liberosis

Manusia

Wellium

Fitching

Povism

Insoucism

Punt Kick

1202

Desanté

Leidenfreude

Pâro

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Mornden

Occhiolism

Craxis

a tall house of cards

On Tenderhooks

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Lockheartedness