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noun
A school of philosophy popularized 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
an indifference to pleasure or pain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stolidity, stolidness
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Broader terms: unemotionality, emotionlessness
noun
(philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
History
From Latin stōicismus. By surface analysis, stoic + -ism. First attested in the 1620s.
Across languages
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