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hamartia
- /həˈmɑː.ti.ə/ UK
- /ˌhæˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/ US
- /ˌhɑːˌmɑɹˈtiː.ə/ US
Rhymes with -iːə
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).
noun hamartias
- The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy. Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.
- Sin. As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, they have all inherited the catastrophic and tragic hamartia, as it were, of original sin, the engrained powerlessness of the soul to will the good, much less to do it, along with the deep disorientation of the soul's
- A focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types.
Translations
Talk about this word "hamartia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hamartia. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hamartia. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hamartia "hamartia." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hamartia.Cite this
@misc{hamartia_2026,
title = {hamartia},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hamartia},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
