Platonic
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From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Plato + -n- (intervocalic) + -ic (“relating to”).
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Platonic (comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)
- Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
- Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:
- 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.
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Platonic (plural Platonics)
- A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
- A Platonic solid.
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