un-Platonicadj.

Brit.

/ˌʌnpləˈtɒnɪk/, U.S.

/ˌənpləˈtɑnɪk/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and Platonic adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, Platonic adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + Platonic adj.

1. Of or with reference to love: physical or carnal, rather than spiritual; unambiguously sexual or romantic. Now usually with lower-case initial. Cf. Platonic adj. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love

amorousc1405

amatory1571

Venerean1575

amatorious1587

venerous1587

venereous1611

venerious1620

erotical1621

Anacreontic1640

erotic1668

gallant1673

un-Platonic1726

amatorian1779

pandemian1818

pandemica1822

genesial1848

aphrodisian1860

1726 D. Lewis et al. Misc. Poems by Several Hands 296 Nor Shepherd, unplatonick, show His Fondness for Alexis.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 219 Our acquaintance,..innocent, at first,..changed nature, and ran into unplatonic lengths.

1838 F. W. Vaux Rambles in Pyrenees ix. 146 The abbé's arm..encircling Marie's waist with, to my mind, a most unplatonic warmth of pressure.

1869 Athenæum 24 Apr. 566/1 Mrs. Hardcastle, in respect of her decidedly un-Platonic relations with Lord Blair.

1934 Times 25 May 9/4 As she plunges with assured ignorance into her quite un-Platonic affair with Antony.

1983 Washington Post 12 Dec. a14/5 A very un-platonic night Lash spent a week later in the same hotel with the woman he later married.

2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 May (Weekend) 4 I happened to glance inside and see my best friend's boyfriend kissing another girl in a very un-platonic way.

2. Not characteristic of Plato or (a particular aspect of) his philosophy. Cf. Platonic adj. 1a.

ΚΠ

1797 I. D'Israeli Vaurien II. xxvi. 182 To relinquish the atheists of an unplatonic world, and to soar to the mysteries of the divine geometrician.

1866 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 123 340 The answer of the Xenophontic Sokrates to the question of Hippias is very un-Platonic.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. p. xxi Respecting the un-Platonic character of the Laws.

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 54 180 The sentiment..that wisdom and power ‘have a natural tendency to combine’ is violently unplatonic.

1972 Yale French Stud. No. 47. 131 A poem like ‘Sextime’, although it is strictly organized around the image of the sun, remains thoroughly un-Platonic in its use of this image.

2014 M.-J. Rubenstein Worlds Without End (2016) ii. 41 This highly un-Platonic and un-Aristotelian view was developed a century later by Epicurus.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	un-platonic
释义	un-Platonicadj. Brit. /ˌʌnpləˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌənpləˈtɑnɪk/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and Platonic adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, Platonic adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + Platonic adj. 1. Of or with reference to love: physical or carnal, rather than spiritual; unambiguously sexual or romantic. Now usually with lower-case initial. Cf. Platonic adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love amorousc1405 amatory1571 Venerean1575 amatorious1587 venerous1587 venereous1611 venerious1620 erotical1621 Anacreontic1640 erotic1668 gallant1673 un-Platonic1726 amatorian1779 pandemian1818 pandemica1822 genesial1848 aphrodisian1860 1726 D. Lewis et al. Misc. Poems by Several Hands 296 Nor Shepherd, unplatonick, show His Fondness for Alexis. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 219 Our acquaintance,..innocent, at first,..changed nature, and ran into unplatonic lengths. 1838 F. W. Vaux Rambles in Pyrenees ix. 146 The abbé's arm..encircling Marie's waist with, to my mind, a most unplatonic warmth of pressure. 1869 Athenæum 24 Apr. 566/1 Mrs. Hardcastle, in respect of her decidedly un-Platonic relations with Lord Blair. 1934 Times 25 May 9/4 As she plunges with assured ignorance into her quite un-Platonic affair with Antony. 1983 Washington Post 12 Dec. a14/5 A very un-platonic night Lash spent a week later in the same hotel with the woman he later married. 2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 May (Weekend) 4 I happened to glance inside and see my best friend's boyfriend kissing another girl in a very un-platonic way. 2. Not characteristic of Plato or (a particular aspect of) his philosophy. Cf. Platonic adj. 1a. ΚΠ 1797 I. D'Israeli Vaurien II. xxvi. 182 To relinquish the atheists of an unplatonic world, and to soar to the mysteries of the divine geometrician. 1866 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 123 340 The answer of the Xenophontic Sokrates to the question of Hippias is very un-Platonic. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. p. xxi Respecting the un-Platonic character of the Laws. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 54 180 The sentiment..that wisdom and power ‘have a natural tendency to combine’ is violently unplatonic. 1972 Yale French Stud. No. 47. 131 A poem like ‘Sextime’, although it is strictly organized around the image of the sun, remains thoroughly un-Platonic in its use of this image. 2014 M.-J. Rubenstein Worlds Without End (2016) ii. 41 This highly un-Platonic and un-Aristotelian view was developed a century later by Epicurus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1726
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