Definition of stoicism
1 capitalized : the philosophy of the Stoics
2 : indifference to pleasure or pain : impassiveness
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She endured his criticism with her usual stoicism.
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The photograph’s earlier stoicism gives way to the performance of grief, as if melodrama were supplanting faith.
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Bond's stoicism -- his ability to endure torture, deprivation and hardship without complaint or self-pity -- must have been hugely reassuring to postwar Britain's sense of itself.
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McAvoy marvels, before offering up an example of her stoicism.
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McAvoy marvels, before offering up an example of her stoicism.
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This new Countryman moves with the heavy-handed stoicism of a BMW SUV.
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Gaza’s residents have adapted to worsening hardships with ingenuity and stoicism.
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Gaza’s residents have adapted to worsening hardships with ingenuity and stoicism.
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Gaza’s residents have adapted to worsening hardships with ingenuity and stoicism.
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First Known Use of stoicism
1626
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: the quality or behavior of a person who accepts what happens without complaining or showing emotion
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