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Hamletism
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English
Etymology
From en Hamlet ism.
Noun
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disastrous indecisiveness.
Herein lies an unsummed world of grief. For in this plaintive fable we find embodied the Hamletism of the antique world; the Hamletism of three thousand years ago: “The flower of virtue cropped by a too rare mischance.”
en The London Quarterly Review 63 47 1885 At last, out of sheer Hamletism, he kills himself, leaving Marianne to Solomine, whom he feels that (despite her promise to him) she has began to look on with an admiration very much akin to love.
Related terms
en Hamlet
en Hamletic
en Hamletian
Translations
Italian: it amletismo m
Anagrams
en aehilmmst maltheism
en eponyms
en William Shakespeare