Associations to the word «Hawthorne»

Wiktionary

HAWTHORNE, proper noun. A topographic or habitational surname​ for someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge or in a place with such a name.
HAWTHORNE EFFECT, noun. A phenomenon whereby a change in the behavior of a subject being studied is an effect of the change itself or the fact of being observed rather than the nature of the change in question.

Dictionary definition

HAWTHORNE, noun. United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King