Crossword-Solution: STOICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stoicism | n. | The opinions and maxims of the Stoics. |
| Stoicism | n. | A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “STOICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno | 1 answer |
| Zeno's school | 1 answer |
| Uncomplaining fortitude | 1 answer |
| Philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium | 1 answer |
| No-emotion notion | 1 answer |
| Grin-and-bear-it philosophy | 1 answer |
| Endurance of hardship without complaint | 1 answer |
| Emotionlessness | 1 answer |
| impassively | 2 answers |
| mental strength | 2 answers |
| Zeno's philosophy | 2 answers |
| Impassiveness | 5 answers |
| True grit | 8 answers |
| A MEMBER OF THE ANCIENT GREEK SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY FOUNDED BY ZENO | 11 answers |
| Imperturbability | 22 answers |
| impassivity | 56 answers |
| Sluggishness | 63 answers |
| Stupor | 76 answers |
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Sentences with STOICISM (5)
She suddenly felt a longing desire to speak to some one stronger than herself, and so get strength to sustain her surmised position with dignity and her carking doubts with stoicism.
With the stoicism of the green Martian he showed no sign of suffering, yet I knew that his grief was as poignant as my own.
With the stoicism of the brutes who had raised him he endured his suffering quietly, preferring to crawl away from the others and lie huddled in some clump of tall grasses rather than to show his misery before their eyes.
The Saxon had been under very intense and agonizing apprehensions concerning his son; for Nature had asserted her rights, in spite of the patriotic stoicism which laboured to disown her.
Roderick was young, impulsive, unpracticed in stoicism; it was a hundred to one that he was to pay the usual vulgar tribute to folly.
Quotes with STOICISM (3)
I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with one’s own pain is to put one foot after the other. Yet I was never willing to suffer with others, and when my own pain hit me, I crawled into hole. Sympathy I have failed in, stoicism I have barely passed. But I have made straight A’s in irony- that curse, that evasion, that armor, that way of staying safe while seeming wise. One thing I have…
You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power — how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live — is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing…
When our stoicism interferes with our humanity, we risk developing a wooden emotional life and an equally wooden personality. In contrast, the realization that our ability to work through pain makes us stronger than all of our efforts to exorcise it may in the long run alleviate its burden. It may enable us to take up our destiny as creatures whose very vulnerability renders us capable of inspired and truly awe-inspiring love.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1974–2024).