stoicism
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈstoʊɪsɪzəm/
stoicism
- A school of philosophy popularized 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.
- A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
- French: stoïcisme
- German: Stoizismus
- Portuguese: estoicismo
- Russian: стоици́зм
- Spanish: estoicismo
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