stoic
stoic Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Enduring pain, adversity, or hardship without displaying feelings or complaining.
"She remained stoic throughout the lengthy legal proceedings, never once showing her frustration to the press."
Relating to the ancient philosophical school of Stoicism or its doctrines (usually capitalized as Stoic).
"Marcus Aurelius recorded his Stoic reflections on duty and mortality while campaigning along the northern frontier."
• noun
A person who can endure pain, sorrow, or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
"My grandfather was a true stoic who worked through severe arthritis without ever uttering a word of complaint."
A member or adherent of the ancient Greek philosophical school of Stoicism, which taught that virtue, reason, and indifference to pleasure or pain are the path to wisdom (usually capitalized as Stoic).
"The ancient Stoics believed that human beings should live in harmony with nature and accept fate with equanimity."
Word Nuance & Usage
When capitalized as 'Stoic', the word refers specifically to the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium; in lowercase, it describes general emotional restraint and endurance of hardship without complaint.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed via Latin 'Stoicus' from Ancient Greek 'Stōïkos', derived from the 'Stoa Poikilē' (Painted Porch), a colonnade in the marketplace of Athens where the philosopher Zeno of Citium taught his disciples around 300 BCE.