stoic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of…

   Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.

2. 2

   A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

   • Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.
3. 3

   Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

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   1. 4

      Not affected by pain or distress.

   2. 5

      Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

      • It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
   3. 6

      Alternative letter-case form of stoic.

   4. 7

      A student of Stowe School, England.

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