platonic

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

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

2. 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.

   1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

comparative more Platonic · superlative most Platonic · alternative platonic · alternative platonick · alternative Platonick

1. not comparableusuallyOf or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
2. not comparableusuallyAlternative 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.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193

plural Platonics · alternative platonic · alternative platonick · alternative Platonick

1. A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
2. A Platonic solid.