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tragic flaw

noun

Meaning

  1. (chiefly literary criticism) A personality trait or other characteristic of a real or fictional individual which is immoral, destructive, or otherwise faulty and which leads to the ruin or profound suffering of that individual.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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