/ˈstəʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/, /ˈstoːɪk/
OriginFrom 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.
- 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.
“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 emotiona”
- A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
“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.”
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of stoic.
- A student of Stowe School, England.
- Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
- Not affected by pain or distress.
- Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christ”
- alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of stoic.
Formsstoics(plural) · Stoic(alternative) · Stoick(alternative, obsolete) · stoick(alternative, obsolete) · Stoïc(alternative, obsolete) · Stoïck(alternative, obsolete) · stoïc(alternative, obsolete) · stoïck(alternative, obsolete) · more stoic(comparative) · most stoic(superlative) · more Stoic(comparative) · most Stoic(superlative) · Stoics(plural)