Hamletism

English

Etymology

From 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^[sic] to look on with an admiration very much akin to love.

Related terms

• Hamlet
• Hamletic
• Hamletian

Translations

Translations

• Italian: amletismo (it) m

Anagrams

• maltheism