Ascetic vs. Stoic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ascetic and Stoic
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Ascetic
Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons
An ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour
Stoic
One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.
Ascetic
A person who follows an ascetic life.
Stoic
Stoic A member of an originally Greek school of philosophy, founded by Zeno of Citium about 308 BC, believing that God determined everything for the best and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Its later Roman form advocated the calm acceptance of all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will or of the natural order.
Ascetic
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
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Stoic
Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
"stoic resignation in the face of hunger" (John F. Kennedy).
Ascetic
Relating to, characteristic of, or leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement.
Stoic
Stoic Of or relating to the Stoics or their philosophy.
Ascetic
Of or relating to ascetics
Stoic
(philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 {{B.C.E.}} up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
Ascetic
Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
Stoic
A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
Ascetic
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
Stoic
Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
Ascetic
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.
Stoic
Not affected by pain or distress.
Ascetic
In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts.
Stoic
Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
Ascetic
Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
Stoic
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
Ascetic
Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;
Ascetic practices
Stoic
Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear.
Ascetic
Practicing great self-denial;
Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
A desert nomad's austere life
A spartan diet
A spartan existence
Stoic
Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Stoic
Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.
Stoic
A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno;
A Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny
Stoic
Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
Stoic
Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive;
Stoic courage
Stoic patience
A stoical sufferer
Stoic
Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
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