philiac

comparative more philiac · superlative most philiac

1. Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.

   Our theme is the philiac or friendly function of Mind at Large.

   1985, Michael Grosso, The final choice: playing the survival game, page 197

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   Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.

   1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328

   ...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model.

   2007, Alice Spencer, Dialogues of Love and Government

   Now, philiac sexuality is by no means restricted to homosexuality, nor, obviously, are all homosexual relationships philiac in nature.

   2013, Gilles Herrada, The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love, →ISBN

plural philiacs

1. A person who has a philia.

   Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.

   1914, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, The American Journal of Psychology, page 360

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   The "philiacs" and '"phobiacs" are, of course, comparable to Robertson's perpetuators of HE and SHE scenarios, and also correspond to Piatt's separation of continued-growth advocates from the supporters of conserver and transformational societies

   1981, JGE - Volume 33, page 82

   And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.

   1991, Marcus Cunliffe, In search of America: transatlantic essays, 1951-1990, page 399