stoical

English

From Middle English stoicalle; equivalent to Latin stōicus +‎ -al or stoic +‎ -al.

stoical (comparative more stoical, superlative most stoical)

Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
- 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."

enduring pain