stoicness

Noun

stoicness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being stoic; impassiveness, endurance, or indifference to pleasure or pain.
   • 1780, July 10, London...habitual stoicness enable me to bear, without ever extorting from me the least lamentation.1891, Edward Perceval Wright, The Manuscripts and Correspondence of James, First Earl of Charlemont, volume 1, page 375
   • His taciturnity and stoicness, too, were Indian-like characteristics.1998, Raymond Benoit, “"My Estrangement from Nature”: An Undergraduate Theme of Theodore Roethke”, in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, volume 11, number 1, page 31
2. The nature or characteristics of the school of philosophy centered on reason and endurance; used in analytical discourse.
   • The Stoicness of Seneca's tragedies is not, according to R., a simple thing.1991, Peter E. Knox, “Ovid: "Amores": Text, Prolegomena, and Commentary in Four Volumes”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, page 239
   • ...these three philosophers constitute a benchmark to use in measuring the 'Stoicness' of other thinkers.1993, Jacques Brunschwig, Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Passions and Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, volume 2, Cambridge University Press