Phlegmatic vs. Stoic — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to phlegm; phlegmy.

One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain.

Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional or apathetic.

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.

(Archaic) Having phlegm as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology.

Seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

Stoic Of or relating to the Stoics or their philosophy.

(archaic) Abounding in phlegm.

(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.

Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.

A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

One who has a phlegmatic disposition.

Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

Watery.

Not affected by pain or distress.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.

Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

Generating or causing phlegm.

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.

Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.

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

Showing little emotion;

Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.

A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno;

Someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions

Seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive;

Pertaining to Stoicism or its followers