HAMARTIA meaning: Fatal flaw leading to downfall

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word hamartia:

General (15 matching dictionaries)

hamartia: Merriam-Webster
hamartia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hamartia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hamartia: Collins English Dictionary
hamartia: Vocabulary.com
hamartia: Wordnik
hamartia: Wiktionary
hamartia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hamartia: Dictionary.com
Hamartia (album), Hamartia (medical term), Hamartia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
hamartia: Rhymezone
hamartia: FreeDictionary.org
hamartia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
hamartia: Mnemonic Dictionary
hamartia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

hamartia: Global Glossary
HAMARTIA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

hamartia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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hamartia: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

hamartia: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hamartia)

▸ noun:  (Greek drama) The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
▸ noun:  (Christianity) Sin.
▸ noun:  (pathology) A focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types.

Similar:

amartia, tragic flaw, fault, Persian flaw, blemish, bathos, hole, falseheart, flaw, harm, more...

Opposite:

arete

Types:

hubris, hamartiof ignorance, hamartiof passion, hamartiof character, hamartiof fate, more...

Adjectives:

greek, tragic, own, aristotelian, great, visible

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