platonic
English
Etymology
Variant of Platonic, which see. The sense “non-sexual” dates to the 17th century in English, and to the 15th century in Latin; see platonic love for details.
Adjective
platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)
- Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
- They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.
- Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:
- 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, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:
Derived terms
- platonically
- platonic love
- platonic relationship
- queerplatonic
Translations
not sexual in nature
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