ataraxia

From Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía), ἀ- (a-, “negative prefix”) + ταράσσω (tarássō, “trouble, disturb”). Doublet of ataraxy.

• IPA: /ætəˈɹæksiə/

ataraxia (usually uncountable, plural ataraxias)

1. (literary, Greek philosophy) Tranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance.

   Synonyms: peace of mind, ataraxy

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius‎, London: E. Cotes, page 168:

     And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.

   • 1838, Piomingo, John Robinson, The Savage‎, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: J. Ferral, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:

     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!

   • 1921, J.E. Crawford Flitch, transl., The Tragic Sense Of Life‎, translation of Del sentimiento trágico de la vida by Miguel de Unamuno:

     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 serene soul—pacata posse mente omnia tueri.

   • 2006, Robert Harris, Imperium‎, London: Arrow Books, Part 2, Chapter 15, p. 400:

     […] he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance.

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Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía).

ataraxia inan

1. ataraxia

From Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía).

• Hyphenation: a‧ta‧ra‧xi‧a

ataraxia f (plural ataraxias)

1. ataraxia

• IPA^(key): [a.ta.rakˈsi.a]

ataraxia f

1. definite nominative singular of ataraxie: the ataraxia
2. definite accusative singular of ataraxie: the ataraxia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía).

ataraxia f (plural ataraxias)

1. ataraxia

• “ataraxia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014