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stoic

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Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
  4. adjective Not affected by pain or distress.
  5. adjective Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

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stoical unemotional unemotional person stark unflinching austere impassive rugged joyless bleak

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Stoic Stoics stoical stoically stoics

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