Associations to the word «Hamartia»

Wiktionary

HAMARTIA, noun. The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
HAMARTIA, noun. (Christian theology): sin

Dictionary definition

HAMARTIA, noun. The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne