stoic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstəʊɪk/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstoʊɪk/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊɪk
- Hyphenation: sto‧ic
Noun
[edit]stoic (plural stoics)
- (philosophy) 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.
- 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
- A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
- 1959 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The German Federal Railway today: 1.—Impressions of a week-end visit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 379:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]proponent of a school of thought
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a person indifferent to pleasure or pain
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Adjective
[edit]stoic (comparative more stoic, superlative most stoic)
- Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
- Not affected by pain or distress.
- Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
- Synonyms: expressionless, impassive
- 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]of or relating to the Stoics
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not affected by pain or distress
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not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain
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[edit]References
[edit]- “stoic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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[edit]Borrowed from French stoïque, from Latin stoicus.
Adjective
[edit]stoic m or n (feminine singular stoică, masculine plural stoici, feminine and neuter plural stoice)
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