Etymology

bedtime procrastination

Today it means: A failure of self-regulation wherein one fails to go to bed at the intended time, despite no external circumstances preventing one from doing so. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by Dutch researcher Floor M. Kroese in 2014.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.