different between stoicism vs scepticism

English

Alternative forms

• Stoicism

Etymology

From stoic +? -ism

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sto??s?z?m/
• Hyphenation: sto?i?cism

Noun

stoicism (countable and uncountable, plural stoicisms)

1. A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
2. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Translations

Anagrams

• misticos

Romanian

Etymology

From French stoïcisme

Noun

stoicism n (uncountable)

1. stoicism

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin *scepticus, only in plural Sceptici (“the sect of Skeptics”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from ????????? (sképtomai, “I consider”), compare to ?????? (skopé?, “I view, examine”).

Noun

scepticism (countable and uncountable, plural scepticisms)

1. (British spelling) alternative form of skepticism

   • When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or suchlike, — do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King […] ?

Related terms

• sceptic
• sceptical

Romanian

Etymology

From French scepticisme

Noun

scepticism n (uncountable)

1. skepticism

Declension