Stoic

['stəʊɪk] or ['stoɪk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; 'a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny'.

(noun.) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions.

(adj.) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; 'stoic courage'; 'stoic patience'; 'a stoical sufferer' .

(adj.) pertaining to Stoicism or its followers .

艾格尼丝編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

(n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

(n.) Alt. of Stoical

整理:莱斯利

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Follower of Zeno, stoical philosopher.

a. Passionless, apathetic, unimpassioned, imperturbable, philosophic, Platonic, cool, indifferent, cold, cold-blooded.

編輯:奥斯本

解釋/意思:

n. a disciple of the philosopher Zeno (340-260 B.C.) who opened his school in a colonnade called the Stoa Poikilē ('painted porch') at Athens—later Roman Stoics were Cato the Younger Seneca Marcus Aurelius: one indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adjs. Stō′ic -al pertaining to the Stoics or to their opinions; indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adv. Stō′ically.—ns. Stō′icalness; Stō′icism the doctrines of the Stoics a school of ancient philosophy strongly opposed to Epicureanism in its views of life and duty: indifference to pleasure or pain.

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