STOICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stoicism mean? 

• STOICISM (noun)
  The noun STOICISM has 2 senses:

1. an indifference to pleasure or pain

2. (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno

  Familiarity information: STOICISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOICISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indifference to pleasure or pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

stoicism; stolidity; stolidness

Hypernyms ("stoicism" is a kind of...):

emotionlessness; unemotionality (absence of emotion)

Derivation:

stoical (seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Stoicism" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

Domain category:

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

 Context examples 

In spite of his Christian stoicism, when she went up and addressed him, and smiled gaily, encouragingly, even fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)