Synonym: Stoicism, stolidity, stolidness. Similar words: stoic, cynicism, lyricism, briticism, criticism, empiricism, skepticism, asceticism. Meaning: ['stoʊɪsɪzm] 
n. 1. an indifference to pleasure or pain 2. (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno.
n. 1. an indifference to pleasure or pain 2. (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno. 
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1. She showed great stoicism during her husband's final illness.
2. They bore their plight with stoicism and fortitude.
3. She endured her long illness with stoicism.
4. The other, still more influential, was Stoicism.
5. No more angry stoicism, or prideful unexpressed resentment.
6. And yet, underneath that veneer of stoicism there lay a devious imp.
7. While this view could equally have generated stoicism, in Mum's case it led to self-pity.
8. From the stoicism of a Bogart, we entered a world where male menace no longer was potential.
9. He appeared to face life's setbacks with stoicism.
10. STOICISM: This shit is good for me.
11. His apathetic stoicism amazed the bandits.
12. Manager Arsene Wenger has restored the defensive stoicism that characterised Arsenal sides of the past.
13. Stoicism is one of three main philosophical schools in Hellenistic period, its cosmogony is distinctive in the whole western age.
14. Stoicism also taught a peace through detachment from worldly things.
15. Britain's customary stoicism had been overwhelmed by raw, unbridled grief.
16. The frontiersman's self-sufficiency and stoicism in the face of pain belong now in some wax museum of lost American self-images.
17. A great story would be the stoicism, sympathy and generosity that local populations continue to offer western society in spite of our snot-nosed economic thuggery.
18. The stoicism is a very important school of thought in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, it's representative men include Zeno, Epictetus and Seneca etc.
19. Platonism, Stoicism and Paul's theory about salvation by faith, are the main thought source of Christian universalism.
20. He endured the pain of his wounds with great stoicism.
21. They reacted to the appalling weather with typical British stoicism.
22. They faced the prospect of an agonising premature death with anger and humour, stoicism and frustration, wisdom and stupidity.
23. Nearing the second term at Sandown Park,(Sentencedict) Barons should get some recognition for its stoicism and tenacity.
24. Storni addresses this woman, upon whom the burden of stoicism sits heavy.
25. With almost supernatural inner strength, Washington's Carter retreats into a defiant yet defensive shell of stoicism.
26. Inside the mansion, the hostages have displayed gallantry, solidarity and stoicism.
27. This essay investigated an important tradition in History of Western thoughts, the Stoicism, especially its ethics.
28. Over the centuries this has produced a sort of stoicism.
29. The most sentimental thing in the world is to hide your feelings; it is making too much of them. Stoicism is the direct product of sentimentalism.
30. The Thatcher revolution reasserted the wartime values of belligerence, stoicism, chauvinism and repression.
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