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n. Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness.

n. The doctrines or philosophy of the Stoics.

n. A school of philosophy during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.

n. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

n. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

n. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

n. [capitalized] The opinions and maxims of the Stoics; also, the conduct recommended by the Stoics.

n. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; the bearing of pain without betraying feeling; calm fortitude.

n. Synonyms Insensibility, Impassibility, etc. See apathy.

n. an indifference to pleasure or pain

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

"The great English journalist Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times at the time of the Birmingham bombings, says, "I hate to use the word stoicism, but its true.""

unemotionality    emotionlessness    philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory   

insensibility    impassiveness   

composure    self-possession    resignation    demeanour    stolidity    fortitude    hopelessness    callousness    equanimity    endurance