STOLIDITY

stoicism, stolidity, stolidness

(noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain

emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality

(noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

stolidity (usually uncountable, plural stolidities)

The property of being stolid; unemotionality.

Source: Wiktionary


Sto*lid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. stoliditas.]

Definition: The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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