Stoic vs Arbiter - What's the difference?
stoic | arbiter |
(philosophy) Proponent of a school of thought, from in 300 up to about the time of , 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.
Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
Not affected by pain or distress.
Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
* 1931 , William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local , page 495
(with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
(electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
To act as arbiter.
* 2003 , Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French , page 116
As nouns the difference between stoic and arbiter
is that stoic is (stoic) while arbiter is a person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.As an adjective stoic
is (stoic).As a verb arbiter is
to act as arbiter.stoic
English
Alternative forms
* Stoic * Stoick (obsolete) * stoick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(Stoicism) (en adjective)Synonyms
* (not affected by pain or distress ) apathetic, impassive, stoical * (not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress ) expressionless, impassiveAnagrams
* ----arbiter
English
Noun
(en noun)- In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.
- Television and film, not ''Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
Verb
(en verb)- Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.