STOIC

(noun) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
"a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
(noun) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
synonyms : unemotional person
The son's death didn't affect the stoic mother. -added by bluegenetic
(adj.) pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
(adj.) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
"stoic courage", "stoic patience", "a stoical sufferer"
synonyms : stoical

Mnemonics for stoic

(Tag: ) Think: "Stone-like"--> To be like a stone means you don't experience pleasure or pain. You are unaffected.
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(Tag: ) STOIC sounds similar to TOY (if that 'c' is removed)...a toy is impassive and unmoved by joy or grief
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(Tag: ) STOIC = STO (ie stony) + IC (ie icy) meaning thereby stony n icy...unaffected n emotionless
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(Tag: ) sTOIc,,,,,,, TOI stands for Times of Inda, the newspaper,,, and their articles are indifferent to emotion and bias
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(Tag: ) a child was very happy as his new toy would be coming. but seeing that the toy is made up of stone he turned stoic
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(Tag: ) story becomes stoic after being dry i.e. unemotional.
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(Tag: Rhyme it with stalk..stoic is just like some stalk in the soup i.e. an unemotional person) stoic
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(Tag: Rhyme it with stalk..stoic is just like some stalk in the soup i.e. an unemotional person) stoic
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