Stoic

n. [Lat. stoicus, Gr. στωϊκός, from στοά, a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where the philosopher Zeno and his successors taught; It. stoico, Sp. estoico, Fr. stoïcien.]

1Sense 1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno, who founded a sect, and taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to the unavoidable necessity by which all things are governed.

2Sense 2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person, or one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. Campbell.