ataraxy

Definitions

1. Ataraxia; freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
   uncountable, usually
2. State of psychological calm and tranquility, absence of discomfort, or metabolical inactivity.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“When the Pyrrhonians say⟳, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].”

“Youth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term—and now, all of a sudden, in mid-term, peace, ataraxy, a profound and leisured stillness.”

“There was no longer any need⟳ for fortitude: he felt nothing at present⟳ and there was no point⟳ in artificial ataraxy.”

“I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face⟳ seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.”

“Ataraxy can be produced by ataractics, drugs that have⟳ a calming or quieting effect.”

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