ataraxy
English
Etymology
From Middle French ataraxie, from Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía, “impassiveness”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ταράσσω (tarássō, “I disturb”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈatəɹaksi/
Noun
ataraxy (uncountable)
- Freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively […].
- 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
- There was no longer any need for fortitude: he felt nothing at present and there was no point in artificial ataraxy.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea Of Fun:
- I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.
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