Found 2 items, similar to stoic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: stoic
stoic
adj 1: seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive;
“stoic
courage”;
“stoic patience”;
“a stoical sufferer” [syn:
stoical]
2: pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Stoic
Stoic
\Sto"ic\, n. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, adj., literally,
of or pertaining to a colonnade, from ? a roofed colonnade, a
porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his
successors taught.]
1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect
which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved
by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to
unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
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2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person;
one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to
pleasure or pain.
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A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
--Campbell.
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School of Stoics. See
The Porch, under
Porch.
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Stoic
\Sto"ic\, Stoical
\Sto"ic*al\, a. [L. stoicus, Gr. ?: cf.
F. sto["i]que. See
Stoic, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or
their doctrines.
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2. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to
pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or
bad fortune without complaint. --
Sto"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Sto"ic*al*ness, n.
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