Meaning of ataraxy | Babel Free

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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