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Platonic

adj
/pləˈtɒnɪk//pləˈtɔnɪk/US/pləˈtɑnɪk/

Etymology

Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.

  1. derived from Platōnicus

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).

    • The homosexual dismisses heterosexual love as a distasteful bondage to normalcy and bourgeois domestication, but the Platonic lover of the soul is dismissing all sexuality as bondage to the physical world.

  3. A Platonist

    A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A Platonic solid.

    2. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature

      Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.

      • They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of…

      Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).

      • Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.

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Derived

aplatonic, nonplatonic, platonically, platonic love, quasiplatonic, queerplatonic, semiplatonic

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