plaintful vs stoic

plaintful

stoic

noun
  • 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. 

  • A person indifferent to pleasure or pain. 

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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