ataraxy
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4ADJ.
artificial
VERB + ATARAXY
point, say
ATARAXY + NOUN
chiefe
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in
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noun
Ataraxia; freedom from mental disturbance; imperturbability, dogged indifference.
When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
Youth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term—and now, all of a sudden, in mid-term, peace, ataraxy, a profound and leisured stillness.
State of psychological calm and tranquility, absence of discomfort, or metabolical inactivity.
Ataraxy can be produced by ataractics, drugs that have a calming or quieting effect.
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3When the Pyrrhonians say, that ataraxy is the chiefe felicitie, which is the immobilitie of judgement, their meaning is not to speake it affirmatively[…].
WiktionaryYouth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term—and now, all of a sudden,
WiktionaryThere was no longer any need for fortitude: he felt nothing at present and there was no point in artificial ataraxy.
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