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Stoic vs Coldhearted - What's the difference?

stoic | coldhearted |

As adjectives the difference between stoic and coldhearted

is that stoic is (stoic) while coldhearted is .

As a noun stoic

is (stoic).

stoic

English

Alternative forms

* Stoic * Stoick (obsolete) * stoick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Adjective

    (Stoicism) (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (not affected by pain or distress ) apathetic, impassive, stoical * (not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress ) expressionless, impassive

    Related terms

    * stoical * stoically * stoicism

    Anagrams

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    coldhearted

    English

    Adjective

  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
    • , passage=Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House. }}