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Sangfroid vs Stolid - What's the difference?

sangfroid | stolid |

As a noun sangfroid

is composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.

As an adjective stolid is

having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.

sangfroid

English

Alternative forms

* sang-froid * sang froid

Noun

(-)
  • Composure, self-possession or imperturbability especially when in a dangerous situation.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid .}}
    He handled the stressful situation with great sangfroid .

    Synonyms

    * poise * aplomb * unflappability

    Related terms

    * sanguine

    stolid

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility.
  • * 1857 , ", verse 2.
    • Light laughs the breeze
    In her Castle above them —
    Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,
    Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence —
    Ah, what sagacity perished here!
  • * 1898 , ,
    • They (Eloi) all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid , some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
  • * 1950 , Ray Bradbury, ,
    • With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black.