STOIC
WordNet
adjective
(1) Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
"Stoic courage"
"Stoic patience"
"A stoical sufferer"
(2) Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
noun
(3) A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
"A Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
(4) Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
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Etymology
From , from , from , the portico in Athens where Zeno was teaching.
Noun
- Proponent of a school of thought, from in 300 BCE up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, that one can be free of suffering.
- a person indifferent to pleasure or pain
- a student of Stowe School, England.
Adjective
- of or related to the Stoics or their ideas; see Stoicism
- not affected by pain or distress
- not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress
Synonyms
- (not affected by pain or distress) apathetic, impassive, stoical
- (not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress) expressionless, impassive