OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 39142

ataraxia

/ætəˈɹæksiə/
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ataraxia
Tranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance.
O, for that apathy of soul, that sweet ataraxia, of which I have heard, which forbids alike the approaches of pleasure and pain, hope and despair!
That terrible Latin poet Lucretius, whose apparent serenity and Epicurean ataraxia conceal so much despair, said that piety consists in the power to contemplate all things with a s…
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