Stoic means bearing pain and hardship without complaint. Remain stoic throughout.
The philosophy behind it taught accepting what cannot be changed rather than feeling nothing. The name comes from a painted porch in Athens where the first Stoics taught.
1adjectivestoicBearing pain and hardship without complaint.
“He was stoic about the whole thing and told nobody for a year.”
stoic is a quality.
They taught on a painted porch in Athens, and the porch gave them the name. A stoic takes what comes and does not complain about it.
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Greek Stoikos comes from the Stoa Poikile, the painted porch in Athens where Zeno taught.
Ancient Greek
Στωϊκός
Middle English
Stoycis
Latin
stōicus
English, today
stoic
From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός, from Ποικίλη Στοά (“the Stoa Poikile”) literally “painted portico”, the portico in Athens where {{w|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA