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stoic

See also: Stoic, stoić, and Stoić

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Etymology

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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.

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stoic (plural stoics)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.

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stoic (comparative more stoic, superlative most stoic)

  1. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
  2. Not affected by pain or distress.
    Synonyms: apathetic, impassive, stoical
  3. Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
    Synonyms: expressionless, impassive

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stoic

  1. inflection of stoc:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French stoïque, from Latin stoicus.

Adjective

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stoic m or n (feminine singular stoică, masculine plural stoici, feminine and neuter plural stoice)

  1. stoic

Declension

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Declension of stoic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite stoic stoică stoici stoice
definite stoicul stoica stoicii stoicele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite stoic stoice stoici stoice
definite stoicului stoicei stoicilor stoicelor
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