stoicity · noun — stoicism. It carries an Arena rating of 1308, earned across 38 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “stoicity” is a great word
STOICITY — [Noun] The quality of bearing pain or hardship without complaint, governed by reasoned self-control and an acceptance of fate in accordance with philosophical principle. From French stoïcité; by surface analysis, from English stoic (from Latin stoicus, from Greek stōikos, from Stoa Poikilē, the painted porch in Athens where Zeno taught) + -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting state or condition). First attested in 1616 in the writing of Ben Jonson. Unlike "apathy" (which implies a vacancy of feeling) or "resignation" (which suggests a passive, defeated acceptance), stoicity denotes an active, lucid fortitude. It is the gritted teeth behind a calm voice in a crisis, the steady hand performing a necessary duty, and the deliberate breath drawn in a room heavy with grief—a conscious architecture of calm built not to feel nothing, but to feel correctly.
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Etymology
Calque of French stoïcité. Only attested in the writing of Ben Jonson, poet and playwright. By surface analysis, stoic + -ity.
noun
- Stoicism.e.g.“Talk me of pins, and feathers, and ladies, and rushes, and such things, and leave this stoicity alone till thou mak'st sermons” — 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, p
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