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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