What does stoical mean?
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ˈstoʊ ɪ kəlsto·ical
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Princeton's WordNet
stoic, stoicaladjective
seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
"stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
GCIDE
Stoicaladjective
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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stoicaladjective
Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
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stoical
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BCE. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia (happiness, lit. 'good spiritedness'): one flourishes by living an ethical life. The Stoics identified the path to eudaimonia with a life spent practicing virtue and living in accordance with nature. Alongside Aristotelian ethics, the Stoic tradition forms one of the major founding approaches to virtue ethics. The Stoics are especially known for teaching that "virtue is the only good" for human beings, and that external things, such as health, wealth, and pleasure, are not good or bad in themselves (adiaphora) but have value as "material for virtue to act upon". Many Stoics—such as Seneca and Epictetus—emphasized that because "virtue is sufficient for happiness", a sage would be emotionally resilient to misfortune. The Stoics also held that certain destructive emotions resulted from errors of judgment, and they believed people should aim to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is "in accordance with nature". Because of this, the Stoics thought the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved. To live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they thought everything was rooted in nature. Stoicism flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century CE, and among its adherents was Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It experienced a decline after Christianity became the state religion in the 4th century CE. Since then, it has seen revivals, notably in the Renaissance (Neostoicism) and in the contemporary era (modern Stoicism).
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Stoical refers to the quality of displaying little or no reaction to painful or pleasant situations. It is the state of being calm, not showing feelings, and accepting whatever is happening without complaining, often associated with the philosophy of the ancient Greek Stoics.
Webster Dictionary
Stoicalnoun
of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines
Stoicalnoun
not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain
Etymology: [L. stoicus, Gr. : cf. F. stoque. See Stoic, n.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stoical in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stoical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of stoical in a Sentence
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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