Platonic ideal

noun

A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.

“We used the US constitution as the Platonic ideal of the ideology of our new state.”

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Meanings

nounPlatonic ideal (plural Platonic ideals)

plural Platonic ideals

  1. A perfect, idealized notion of something, taken to exist beyond the physical world.

    We used the US constitution as the Platonic ideal of the ideology of our new state.

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