Hamletism

noun

Etymology

From Hamlet + -ism.

  1. derived from *haimaz
  2. derived from *haim
  3. derived from ham
  4. derived from hamel
  5. derived from hamelet
  6. inherited from hamlet
  7. suffixed as hamletism — “Hamlet + ism

Definitions

  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.”
    • 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.

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