stolidity

noun

Definition of stoliditynext
as in impassivity

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  1. stoicism
  2. indifference
  3. nonchalance
  4. insouciance
  5. unconcern
  6. casualness
  7. disregard
  8. phlegm
Noun
  • His coming chapter is likely to be more about stoicism than athleticism.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • An opportunity for players to showcase their personalities in a sport that often tends toward stoicism.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of stoicism
Noun
  • Was there a kind of indifference — not cold, but settled — in which nothing felt particularly more significant because an end was coming?
    — Sai Rajagopal, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026
  • As past and present echo through the mountains, human encroachment and indifference threaten to erase their unique spirit, and his story becomes a reflection of an age-old, unequal struggle.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of indifference
Noun
  • Spain’s talisman was Lamine Yamal, its nineteen-year-old right winger, who plays the game with bleached tips, implausible speed, and nonchalance, but its superego was Rodri, the team’s central midfielder and captain.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • But in the era of dating apps − essentially another form of social media − the nonchalance with which so many approach dating has gotten out of hand.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Definition of nonchalance
Noun
  • Rumpled lengths ooze insouciance, radiating a can't-be-bothered energy that, for some, is far cooler than even the bounciest blowout.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 4 July 2026
  • This turn was frankly difficult to digest in a show that’s otherwise adopted a stance of irreverent insouciance toward other hot topics.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 June 2026
Definition of insouciance
Noun
  • The book’s occasional oases of self-examination are surrounded by dusty expanses of omission and unconcern.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.
    — Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
Definition of unconcern
Noun
  • The key to not looking too bundled up is to add a layer that offsets the casualness of the others.
    — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 30 July 2026
  • Now my mother and I sometimes talk about Hương; never directly, but with a casualness that, too, seems like a gift.
    — Thao Thai, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Definition of casualness
Noun
  • The disregard for women’s sports is not a new struggle for anyone who has followed or fought for women’s sports before.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The current charge against Comey, in short, relies on a tendentious interpretation of an innocuous term combined with a disregard for the First Amendment in order to gin up charges against a man Trump has been targeting openly for nearly a decade.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of disregard
Noun
  • European colonists commonly believed that the balance of humors – yellow and black biles, blood and phlegm – circulating through one’s body was important for health.
    — Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • Veeze’s signature rapping voice, which sounds like his vocal cords are coated in phlegm and cough syrup, is increasingly versatile, despite the sometimes half-asleep delivery.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026
Definition of phlegm
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