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Hamletism

Hamletism noun: disastrous indecisiveness.

Noun

Hamletism (countable and uncountable, plural Hamletisms)

  1. 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.”1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
    • 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^([sic]) to look on with an admiration very much akin to love.1885, The London Quarterly Review, volume 63, page 47

Forms of Hamletism

pluralHamletisms

Origin of Hamletism

From Hamlet + -ism.

Questions about Hamletism

What does Hamletism mean?
Hamletism means disastrous indecisiveness.
What part of speech is Hamletism?
Hamletism is a noun.
What is the plural of Hamletism?
The plural of Hamletism is Hamletisms.

Words near Hamletism in the dictionary

  1. hamleted
  2. hamleteer
  3. hamleteers
  4. Hamletian
  5. Hamletic
  6. Hamletism
  7. Hamletisms
  8. hamletization
  9. hamlets
  10. Hamlett
  11. hamletted

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