What does stoic mean?
Definitions for stoic
ˈstoʊ ɪksto·ic
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Princeton's WordNet
Stoicnoun
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
"a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
stoic, unemotional personadjective
someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
stoic, stoicaladjective
seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
"stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
Stoicadjective
pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
Wiktionary
stoicnoun
Proponent of a school of thought, from in 300 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.
stoicnoun
a person indifferent to pleasure or pain
stoicnoun
a student of Stowe School, England.
stoicadjective
of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas; see Stoicism
stoicadjective
not affected by pain or distress
stoicadjective
not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress
Etymology: From stoicus, from Στωϊκός, from Ποικίλη Στοά, the portico in Athens where Zeno was teaching.
Wikipedia
STOIC
STOIC (Stack-Oriented Interactive Compiler) is a 1970s programming language, a variant of Forth.
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stoic
A stoic is a person who can endure pain, hardship or suffering without showing their feelings or complaining. It refers to someone who is unemotional, especially under challenging conditions. The term originates from Stoicism, an ancient Greek philosophy which teaches the development of self-control and fortitude to overcome destructive emotions.
Webster Dictionary
Stoicnoun
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
Stoicnoun
hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain
Stoicnoun
alt. of Stoical
Etymology: [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.]
Wikidata
STOIC
STOIC is a 1970s programming language, a variant of Forth.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stoic
stō′ik, n. a disciple of the philosopher Zeno (340-260 B.C.), who opened his school in a colonnade called the Stoa Poikilē ('painted porch') at Athens—later Roman Stoics were Cato the Younger, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius: one indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adjs. Stō′ic, -al, pertaining to the Stoics, or to their opinions; indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adv. Stō′ically.—ns. Stō′icalness; Stō′icism, the doctrines of the Stoics, a school of ancient philosophy strongly opposed to Epicureanism in its views of life and duty: indifference to pleasure or pain. [L. Stoicus—Gr. Stōïkos—stoa, a porch.]
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Ostic
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stoic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stoic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of stoic in a Sentence
I'd like to believe( the criticism is about) his personality more than anything, the idea that you should be stoic when you play this game, it really should be about your merit more so than anything else, about what you've accomplished and what you've done. That's how we should judge people.
The boy was stoic. Not a tear. Not an emotion, i asked Nikolas Cruz if Nikolas Cruz was upset. Nikolas Cruz said :' I'm upset because nobody came, and nobody cares about Lynda Cruzs.'.
Whether you agree with or use what I utilize for self-assessment is not what’s important. What is important is looking carefully at yourself in the Stoic’s mirror. Many people are their own greatest fans. Be your own harshest critic.
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
The ancient world was not a place for modern gender equity. But the Stoic philosophers, in their discourses on political and moral life, held that virtue, or ethical excellence, had no gender. Zeno of Citium envisaged an ideal community of sages that included women. The view follows from the Stoic doctrine that all humans are endowed with reason.
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- رواقيArabic
- stoickýCzech
- stoiskeDanish
- stoisch, StoikerGerman
- στωικόςGreek
- estoica, estoicoSpanish
- stoalainenFinnish
- stoïqueFrench
- उदासीनHindi
- szenvedélymentes, sztoikusHungarian
- סטואיHebrew
- 금욕 주의자Korean
- whakarongo ukaMāori
- stoiskeNorwegian
- stoickiPolish
- estoicoPortuguese
- стои́ческий, сто́икRussian
- ஞானிTamil
- อดทนThai
- стоїкUkrainian
- סטאָיקYiddish
- 坚忍Chinese
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