Both Uses of
stoic
in
Looking for Alaska
- I felt embarrassed to be still falling apart two weeks later when the Colonel could take his medicine so stoically, and I sat up.†
p. 168.5 *stoically = without displaying emotion
- "Give me the Mountain Dew," he said stoically.†
p. 180.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, a stoic can refer to a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno (known for striving to be unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions).