STOICISM • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Stoicism

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/stˈoʊəsˌɪzəm/ Listen

Stoicism

noun

An indifference to pleasure or pain. Synonyms: stolidity, stolidness.

(philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno.

See more definitions of Stoicism...

See images of 'Stoicism'

Etymology of 'Stoicism'

Share |

"Stoicism" Quotes from Famous Books

... sense of security. She was not graceful in these exercises. Her ankles were thick and clumsy. Not merely had she no natural aptitude for physical feats—apparently she was not lissom, nor elegant in motion. But what courage! What calm, bright endurance! What stoicism! Most girls would have reproached him for betraying them to destruction, would have pouted, complained, demanded petting and apologies. But not she! She was like a man. And when he helped her to pick herself up he noticed that after all ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... about them thickened. Hundreds and hundreds of dancers whirled and jumped to the shrill, incessant blowing of the eagle-bone whistle. It seemed at times to the excited imaginations of Dick and Albert that the earth rocked to the mighty tread of the greatest of all sun dances. Indian stoicism was gone, perspiration streamed from dark faces, eyes became bloodshot as their owners danced with feverish vigor, savage shouts burst forth, and the demon ...

— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler

... first drew me away from fretting memories; in its high restraint, as of a hushed yet mighty wind, it breathed a power of valiant endurance, and promised before nightfall the respite of a twilight hour. For stoicism has qualities which seem foreordained for the bracing of shy souls, as if the men who framed its austere laws had prescience of our frailty and consciously legislated to its intention. It is the philosophy of the individual standing by himself, as the shy must always stand, over against ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... the Mission smacks. In a single year nearly eight thousand cases have been treated in the floating dispensaries, and I may say that I never saw a malingerer come on board. What would be the use? It is only the stress of positive pain that makes the men seek help, and their hard stoicism is very fine to see. A man unbinds an ugly poisoned hand, and quietly lets you know that he has gone about his work for a week with that throbbing fester paining him; another will simply say that he kept about as long as he could with a broken finger. Then there are cases of a peculiarly ...

— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

... no sign that he heard. He understood perfectly that the ingenuity of Pasquale would make the day one long succession of tortures for him. It was up to him to mask his face and manner with the stoicism of ...

— Steve Yeager • William MacLeod Raine

More quotes...