# stoicism

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈstəʊɪsɪzəm/ · frequency rank #45,677

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From Latin stōicismus. By surface analysis, stoic + -ism. First attested in the 1620s.

## Common misspellings (12)
`soticism`, `sstoicism`, `stiocism`, `stociism`, `stoiccism`, `stoicims`, `stoicismm`, `stoicissm`, `stoicsim`, `stoiicsm`, `sttoicism`, `tsoicism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stoicism