hamartia \hah-mahr-TEE-uh\,
noun:
Tragic flaw.
What is Oedipus' hamartia that leads to his self-fulfilling self-reversal?
-- Laszlo Versényi, "Man's Measure"
We called it by many different things, such as hubris or hamartia, but given the way you butcher Latin, let's stick with English.
-- Stephanie Draven, "The Fever and the Fury"
Hamartia stems from the Greek word hamartánein which meant "to err." However, it entered English in the late 1800s.
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