Hamletism

English

Etymology

From Hamlet +‎ -ism.

Noun

Hamletism (countable and uncountable, plural Hamletisms)

  1. Disastrous indecisiveness.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      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.”
    • 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[sic] to look on with an admiration very much akin to love.

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