hamartia

IPA: hʌmˈɑrʃʌ

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

Examples of "hamartia" in Sentences

If only hamartia really meant that.
Hamartia has to do with deeds not with character.
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Your hamartia is your: a. tragic flaw that leads to your downfall.
Hamartia describes an act performed in ignorance not a trait of an agent.
There is, however, no consensus about what constitutes a proper use of hamartia.
In essence, hamartia means “mistake,” pure and simple—although the mistake is never pure and rarely simple.
Most common, however, is "hamartia," a term from archery meaning to "miss the mark" particularly by falling short.
Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target.
It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”.