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Etymology
From Middle English stoicalle; equivalent to Latin stōicus + -al or stoic + -al.
Adjective
stoical (comparative more stoical, superlative most stoical)
- Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:"More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
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