stoicism
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stoicism (countable and uncountable; plural stoicisms)
- A school of philosophy during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
- A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
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school of philosophy
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