Hamletism

plural Hamletisms

1. countableuncountableDisastrous indecisiveness.

   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

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   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