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Stoic

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈstəʊ.ɪk

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of stoic.
    alt-of
  2. A student of Stowe School, England.
  3. Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
  4. A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

Equivalents

16 more languages
Češtinastoickýstoik
Ελληνικάστωικός
Italianostoicastoico
Latinastoicus
Polskistoicki
Portuguêsestoico
Tagalogmanhid
Türkçestoacı
Українськастоїк
Tiếng Việtkhắc kỉ

Examples

The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.”
Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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