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stoicsto‧ic /ˈstəʊɪk $ ˈstoʊ-/ noun [countable] stoicOrigin: 1500-1600 Stoic ‘follower of the ancient Greek thinker Zeno, who said that happiness results from accepting what happens in life’ (14-21 centuries), from Latin, from Greek stoikos, from Stoa (Poikile) ‘Painted Portico’, where Zeno taught in Athens - He accepted our fate like a stoic and refused to make a fuss.
- Most people, however, are not stoics.
- What would he have had if he'd played the stoic?
someone who does not show their emotions and does not complain when bad things happen to them |