SuaviloquyToday’s word

stoicism

Stoicism, n.

Etymology: [Cf. F. stoïcisme.]

1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

2. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for stoicism; he lists it under apathy.

Where he writes about it:

Stoicism is an intentional suppression of feeling and deadening of sensibilities, while apathy is involuntary. — from apathy