platonic
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Platonic
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his
philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"
2: free from physical desire; "platonic love"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Platonic \Pla*ton"ic\, Platonical \Pla*ton"ic*al\, a. [L.
Platonicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. platonique.]
1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or
opinions.
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2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
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{Platonic bodies}, the five regular geometrical solids;
namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron,
dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
{Platonic love}, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting
between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal
desires, and regarding the mind only and its excellences;
-- a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate.
{Platonic year} (Astron.), a period of time determined by the
revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which
the stars and constellations return to their former places
in respect to the equinoxes; -- called also {great year}.
This revolution, which is caused by the precession of the
equinoxes, is accomplished in about 26,000 years.
--Barlow.
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from
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic
Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a
frost.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "Platonic":
Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian,
Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian,
Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic,
Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonistic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean,
Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Socratic,
Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian,
abstinent, animist, animistic, celibate, continent, idealist,
idealistic, immaterialist, intact, maidenly, panpsychist,
panpsychistic, pre-Socratic, solipsistic, spiritualist,
spiritualistic, vestal, virgin, virginal
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