Stoicism

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stoicism \Sto"i*cism\, n. [Cf. F. sto["i]cisme.]
     1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
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     2. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain;
        insensibility; impassiveness.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stoicism
       n 1: an indifference to pleasure or pain [syn: {stolidity}, {stolidness}]
       2: (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics
          following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher
          Zeno

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "stoicism":
     acceptance, ataraxia, ataraxy, austerity, backbone, bovinity, calm,
     calmness, coolness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness,
     easy temper, endurance, even temper, fatalism, forbearance,
     forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, good temper, grit, guts,
     impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbableness,
     indifference, indulgence, inexcitability, inexcitableness,
     inirritability, insensibility, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance,
     long-suffering, longanimity, patience, patience of Job,
     patientness, perseverance, phlegm, pluck, resignation, sand,
     self-control, self-possession, smooth temper, steadiness,
     stolidity, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration,
     unirritableness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness,
     waiting game, waiting it out
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "Stoicism":
     Aristotelian philosophy, Aristotelianism, Christian ethics,
     Encratism, Epicureanism, Friday, Lenten fare, Peripatetic school,
     Peripateticism, Platonic philosophy, Platonism, Pythagoreanism,
     Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare,
     Stoic philosophy, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention,
     abstinence, altruistic ethics, aretaics, asceticism, avoidance,
     banyan day, casuistry, categorical imperative, celibacy, chastity,
     comparative ethics, continence, deontology, egoistic ethics,
     empiricism, eschewal, ethical formalism, ethical philosophy,
     ethology, ethonomics, eudaemonics, evolutionism, fast, fish day,
     fruitarianism, golden rule, gymnosophy, hedonism, intuitionism,
     moral philosophy, nephalism, perfectionism, plain living,
     refraining, refrainment, sexual abstinence, simple diet,
     situation ethics, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge,
     total abstinence, utilitarianism, vegetarianism