Modern Usage.

The word "stoic" commonly refers to someone who is indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy.^[8] The modern usage as a "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" was first cited in 1579 as a noun and in 1596 as an adjective .^[9] In contrast to the term "Epicurean ", the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ' s entry on Stoicism notes, "the sense of the English adjective 'stoical' is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins".^[10]