different between perfunctory vs stoic

English

Etymology

From Late Latin perfunct?rius, from the past participial stem of perfungor, perfunct- (“perform, carry through”), from per- + fungor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??f??k.t(?)??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??f??k.t?.i/

Adjective

perfunctory (comparative more perfunctory, superlative most perfunctory)

1. Done only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty .

   Synonyms: automatic, cursory, obligatory, pro forma, token, unthinking

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 338]:

     He then poured some wine for me to taste, and harassed me with perfunctory courtesies that had to be acknowledged.
2. Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

   Synonyms: haphazard, mechanical, slipshod

   Antonyms: careful, complete, thorough

Related terms

• perfunctorily
• perfunctoriness

Translations

See also

• pro forma

English

Alternative forms

• Stoic
• Stoick, stoick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin stoicus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (St?ïkós), from ??????? ???? (Poikíl? Stoá, “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno was teaching.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?st???k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sto??k/
• Rhymes: -???k
• Hyphenation: sto?ic

Noun

stoic (plural stoics)

1. (philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.

2. A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

Translations

Adjective

stoic (comparative more stoic, superlative most stoic)

1. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
2. Not affected by pain or distress.

   Synonyms: apathetic, impassive, stoical

3. Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.

   Synonyms: expressionless, impassive

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• Coits, Ostic, Sciot, Ticos, coits

Irish

Alternative forms

• stuic (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t???c/

Noun

stoic

1. inflection of stoc:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Romanian

Etymology

From French stoïque, from Latin stoicus.

Adjective

stoic m or n (feminine singular stoic?, masculine plural stoici, feminine and neuter plural stoice)

1. stoic

Declension