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TheSiavash Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Stolid/stoic

Is my interpretation of these words correct or not?

as far as I understood, stolid is approval, but stoic/stoical is neither approval nor disapproval.

is it the difference between these two? am I right?

thanks
  

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These words are quite tricky to use, as their meanings are difficult to pin down exactly. Also, they seem to have similar meanings, "unemotional," yet they are not synonyms and would never be used as equivalents of each other. Stolid would generally imply lack of emotional response to continuous difficulty over many years.

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  • These words are quite tricky to use, as their meanings are difficult to pin down exactly.
  • Also, they seem to have similar meanings, "unemotional," yet they are not synonyms and would never be used as equivalents of each other.
  • Stolid would generally imply lack of emotional response to continuous difficulty over many years.
  • While stoic would typically imply lack of emotional response to a single, present difficulty.
  • Also, in stolid is the implication that the person is characterized by ordinariness and conformity, while stoic has the implication in it that the person is of a higher intellectual level.
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These words are quite tricky to use, as their meanings are difficult to pin down exactly. Also, they seem to have similar meanings, "unemotional," yet they are not synonyms and would never be used as equivalents of each other.

Stolid would generally imply lack of emotional response to continuous difficulty over many years. While stoic would typically imply lack of emotional response to
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Hi,

To put it another way, I wouldn't like it if you called me stolid, but I'd see it as rather complimentary if you called me stoic.

Clive
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