Stoicism

Noun

 * 1) School of philosophy during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.

Thesaurus 1
acceptance, ataraxia, ataraxy, austerity, backbone, bovinity, calm, calmness, coolness, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, easy temper, endurance, even temper, fatalism, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, good temper, grit, guts, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability, imperturbableness, indifference, indulgence, inexcitability, inexcitableness, inirritability, insensibility, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perseverance, phlegm, pluck, resignation, sand, self-control, self-possession, smooth temper, steadiness, stolidity, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, tolerance, toleration, unirritableness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, waiting game, waiting it out

Thesaurus 2
Aristotelian philosophy, Aristotelianism, Christian ethics, Encratism, Epicureanism, Friday, Lenten fare, Peripatetic school, Peripateticism, Platonic philosophy, Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoic philosophy, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, altruistic ethics, aretaics, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, casuistry, categorical imperative, celibacy, chastity, comparative ethics, continence, deontology, egoistic ethics, empiricism, eschewal, ethical formalism, ethical philosophy, ethology, ethonomics, eudaemonics, evolutionism, fast, fish day, fruitarianism, golden rule, gymnosophy, hedonism, intuitionism, moral philosophy, nephalism, perfectionism, plain living, refraining, refrainment, sexual abstinence, simple diet, situation ethics, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, utilitarianism, vegetarianism

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 * Portuguese: estoicismo
 * Russian: стоицизм
 * Spanish: estoicismo