Meanings
adjectivePlatonesque (comparative more Platonesque, superlative most Platonesque)
comparative more Platonesque · superlative most Platonesque
- Reminiscent of the ancient philosopher Plato.
[…] the Platonic — or should we say the Platonesque — ideas to which we seem to have returned.
1961, Geoffrey Lapage, Art and the Scientist, page 106
Origin
From Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn, “Plato”) + -esque.
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