Stoicisms

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A philosophy advocating endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings or complaints, emphasizing rational self-control and virtue
2. A belief system focused on personal ethics and virtue founded on logic and the natural order, prioritizing emotional resilience over indulgence
3. A doctrine teaching the importance of accepting fate and remaining detached from pleasure and suffering, fostering inner peace through an austere approach to life

Etymology: The plural "stoicisms" is simply the countable form of "stoicism," meaning individual instances or displays of stoical endurance. The noun it belongs to traces back through Latin "stōicismus" to the Greek "Stōa," the painted colonnade in Athens where the philosopher Zeno of Citium taught in the early third century BCE, which gave his school its name. "Stoicism" itself is built from "stoic" plus the suffix "-ism," which denotes a doctrine, system or characteristic attitude. English adopted the word in the 1620s, when the ancient philosophy and the calm endurance it recommended were becoming a subject of renewed interest.

Synonyms: philosophies, composure