tantalism

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/ˈtæntəlɪzəm/

noun

tantalization.

“January 1811, Josiah Quincy, Amendment to the Constitution Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?”

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Meanings

nountantalism (countable and uncountable, plural tantalisms)

plural tantalisms

  1. countabledateduncountabletantalization.

    January 1811, Josiah Quincy, Amendment to the Constitution Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?

    1 more example

    I dare say will think it a lively representation of a person lying under the torments of such a kind of Tantalism, or Platonic Hell, as that which we have now under consideration.

    1711 June 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, June 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 90; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC

Origin

tantalize + -ism.

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tantalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tantalism

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“tantalism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tantalism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tantalism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tantalism.

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