alexithymic vs stoic

alexithymic

noun
  • A person who has difficulty feeling, processing or understanding emotions 

adj
  • Pertaining to or having alexithymia. 

  • Lacking in emotion or emotional expression. 

stoic

noun
  • A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. 

  • Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering. 

adj
  • Not affected by pain or distress. 

  • Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas. 

  • Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress. 

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