STOIC
What does "STOIC" mean?
Enduring pain or hardship without showing feelings or complaint.
Meanings
- Calmly accepting difficulty or pain without visible emotion. She remained stoic through the long, painful recovery.
- A person who endures hardship without complaint. He's a stoic - you'd never know anything was wrong.
- A follower of Stoicism, the ancient Greek school of philosophy. The Stoics taught that virtue alone is sufficient for happiness. technical
Did you know?
- Stoicism is literally named after a porch: Zeno of Citium taught beneath the Stoa Poikile, the 'painted colonnade' in Athens, and his school took the building's name.
"Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things."— Epictetus
Word origin
From Greek 'stoikos', from 'stoa', the painted colonnade (Stoa Poikile) in Athens where the philosopher Zeno of Citium taught his followers around 300 BCE.
Remember it
A STOIC stands like a stone porch - the word comes from the Greek 'stoa', the porch where the philosophy was born.
A little poem
The porch holds the storm-
the philosopher does not
argue with the rain.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked a Stoic if the bad news upset him. He said no - only his opinion of the news could do that.
What it teaches
Calm isn't the absence of the storm; it's refusing to argue with the weather.
Quick facts
What does STOIC mean?
Enduring pain or hardship without showing feelings or complaint.
Is STOIC a valid word?
Yes — STOIC is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is STOIC?
STOIC has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does STOIC come from?
From Greek 'stoikos', from 'stoa', the painted colonnade (Stoa Poikile) in Athens where the philosopher Zeno of Citium taught his followers around 300 BCE.
What can STOIC teach us?
Calm isn't the absence of the storm; it's refusing to argue with the weather.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.