Hamletism

English

Etymology

Hamlet +‎ -ism

Noun

Hamletism (countable and uncountable, plural Hamletisms)

1. Disastrous indecisiveness.
   • 1885, The London Quarterly Review, volume 63, page 47:

     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

• Hamlet
• Hamletic
• Hamletian

Translations

Translations

• Italian: amletismo (it) m

Anagrams

• maltheism