Crossword-Solution: ATARAXIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ataraxia | n. | Alt. of Ataraxy |
We have 12 clues for the answer “ATARAXIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| State of tranquillity | 1 answer |
| TRANQUILLITY, state of | 1 answer |
| ataraxy | 1 answer |
| stoical indifference | 1 answer |
| STATE of tranquility/tranquillity | 2 answers |
| TRANQUIL state | 4 answers |
| Impassiveness | 5 answers |
| Tranquility | 12 answers |
| Imperturbability | 22 answers |
| peace of mind | 46 answers |
| Tranquillity | 69 answers |
| Indifference | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATARAXIA (5)
Revolting against the voluptuous ataraxia of a certain class of Parisian music, he set up, with violence, a manly, healthy pessimism.
The aim of Pyrrhonism was ataraxia in those things which pertain to opinion, and moderation in the things which life imposes.[1] In other words, we find here the same natural desire of the human being to rise above and beyond the limitations which pain and passion impose, which is expressed in other forms, and under other names, in other schools of philosophy.
The method, however, by which ataraxia or peace of mind could be reached, was peculiar to the Sceptic.
The Sceptic in seeking ataraxia in the things of opinion, does not entirely escape from suffering from his sensations.
Ataraxia came to the Sceptic as success in painting the foam on a horse's mouth came to Apelles the painter.
Quotes with ATARAXIA (2)
Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt havoc and sangfroid. The intellectual capabilities of the excellent idiosyncratic talents of a man with an agog outlook for de minimis fringe entities had left the portal ajar for the enlightened few, to get a glimpse of the obsecure reality that most had decided to claim socratic ignorance to evade inquiries.
[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is struck down by a misfortune, grows angry, or loses heart, he shows in this way that he finds things different from what he expected, and consequently that he laboured under a mistake, did not know the world and life, did not know how at every step the will of the individual is crossed and thwarted by the chance of inanimate nature, …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–1994).