ataraxy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈatəɹaksi/
ataraxy (uncountable)
- Freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively […].
- Spanish: ataraxia
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