Dictionary Definitions from Merriam-Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary:
- stoic, the noun
- usually capitalized : a member of a school of
philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 B.C., extensively
systematized by Chrysippus of Soli, and later developed and popularized
by Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
- : one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain
: one not easily excited or upset
- stoic, the adjective
- usually capitalized : of, relating to, or
resembling the Stoics or their doctrines
- : not affected by passion or feeling;
especially : manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain
- stoicism, the noun
- usually capitalized : the principles or the
philosophical system of the Stoics who based an austere ethics on a
pantheistic cosmology holding that the world is governed by and is the
embodiment of logos, that it is man's duty to conform freely to natural
law and his destiny, that virtue is the highest good, and that the wise
man should be free from passion equally unperturbed by joy or grief
- : the principle or practice of showing indifference to
pleasure or pain : repression of feeling : IMPASSIVENESS
- impassivity
- : the quality or state of being impassive : a lack or
absence of feeling or expression
- impassive, the adjective
- : devoid of passion, feeling, or receptivity to
impression: a archaic : unsusceptible to pain,
suffering, injury, or harm : INVULNERABLE b : unsusceptible to
physical feeling : INSENSIBLE, INANIMATE
- : giving no sign of feeling or emotion : EXPRESSIONLESS