Ataraxy

//ˈatəɹaksi//

"Ataraxy" in a Sentence (5 examples)

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.

There was no longer any need for fortitude: he felt nothing at present and there was no point in artificial ataraxy.

I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy.

Ataraxy can be produced by ataractics, drugs that have a calming or quieting effect.

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