philosophical

Etymology

From philosophy + -ical, from Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of knowledge, scientific learning”). Displaced native Old English ūþwitlīċ.

adj

  1. Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
  2. Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
    His richly philosophical intellect was not at any time affected by unrealities. 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Sphinx”, in Arthur's Ladies Magazine
  3. Detached, calm, stoic.
    She bore the desertion with philosophical indifference. 1911, Hector Hugh Munro, The Schartz-Metterklume Method

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