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adjectivepləˈtɒnɪkpləˈtɑnɪk (of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual. their relationship is purely platonic Example sentencesExamples - The relationship is platonic, like a brother-sister relationship.
- The pair have always insisted their relationship was purely platonic.
- The couple decide to try a live-in relationship, primarily platonic, though the boundaries soon dissipate.
- Rossetti had been in love with Jane since 1857, and in the 1870s, in her husband's absence, the pair enjoyed a perhaps not altogether platonic affair.
- The widowed pair found their platonic arrangement suited them both.
- Have you had a platonic friendship that crossed the line and became romantic or sexual?
- Thirty previously unseen letters from the writer to the German-born actress and singer reveal an intense and flirtatious but apparently platonic relationship.
- She has resigned herself to the fact that their relationship is purely platonic and will never be anything more.
- Until now, our relationship has remained completely platonic.
- Here are some things to keep in mind when the guy you want to catch under the mistletoe is more into keeping it strictly platonic.
- Familial and platonic relationships are central themes in Greenfield's works.
- I've had several lady friends over the years, but our relationships have been platonic.
- It is a purely platonic friendship, we are good company for each other.
- They do not expect relationships, either sexual or platonic, to last a lifetime.
- Our realtionship started out as platonic but quickly grew into something much more.
- The relationship between Bob and Charlotte remains at the film's core, and remains platonic despite strong sexual undercurrents.
- Modern readers continue to debate whether the poems express platonic friendship or sexual love.
- He has always insisted their friendship was "platonic".
Synonyms non-sexual, non-physical, chaste spiritual, intellectual, friendly
Origin Mid 17th century: from Platonic, with reference to a discussion of love in the Symposium by Plato. adjective pləˈtɒnɪkpləˈtɑnɪk 1Of or associated with the Greek philosopher Plato or his ideas. readers of the Platonic dialogues a kind of Platonic ideal of a New York City apartment Example sentencesExamples - I think that Greek Tragedy and the Platonic dialogues are positively riddled with irony.
- We stagger round with the Platonic idea (from the Symposium) that we can love only one other person.
- All this might point to a tacit disappointment with the cinema as we know it and a yearning for the Platonic ideal we dream it capable of.
- The novel has no Platonic form, and there is certainly no requirement that writers adhere to a formula or set of rules.
- But like many people who spend too long in front of their computers, he's talking about a Platonic ideal rather than the real world.
- Garbo's face, still, white, perfect, like a mask, resembles the timeless Platonic ideal of beauty as it exists in the mind of God.
- According to Platonic philosophy, mathematics is the proper training for understanding the Universe as it is, as opposed to how it appears.
- We might think that we are no better off in understanding Medea after learning of the Stoic - Platonic dispute over the right way to interpret what is going on in her.
- My understanding of both Scripture and Platonic philosophy is far too limited to provide a sufficient response.
- It would not have been difficult for him to find Greek copies of Platonic dialogues at either Carthage or Rome, where he taught for a time.
- The Greek, especially the Platonic, tradition saw the soul and body as utterly distinct and separate entities.
- An authoritarian response would be to delegate power to a paternalistic dictator, a Platonic philosopher king.
- Otherwise, the picture we get of the Academy is of a centre for discussions, with no indication that students went there to learn Platonic doctrines.
- Philo adopted the Platonic concept of the soul with its tripartite division.
- He also accepted the Platonic distinction between the real and the phenomenal, with which this ideal often was associated.
- The reality of such common objects of experience also earned a philosophical sanction from Platonic idealism.
- Madison shows that Nietzsche directed his critique of Platonic science at the assumption that science represents reality.
- Resurrection meant life after life after death, and that was impossible for all Greeks, Homeric or Platonic.
- To answer this question, one might begin by contrasting, at least in a crude way, a Humean with a Platonic conception of practical reasoning.
- Even in democracies, however, there are fascinating relics of the Platonic image of the guardians.
- This is the convergence of the real and the abstract, the Platonic ideal and its inferior shadow, matter and energy.
2Confined to words, theories, or ideals, and not leading to practical action. Example sentencesExamples - An anti-capitalist movement must be equal to this, otherwise it will not be effective, unless of course you intend your movement to be merely Platonic.
- It would be more useful if our West European partners' position was less platonic and if they made a more energetic and persistent effort to pound it into the Americans.
- An eminent diplomatic commentator wrote that the action taken by France in response to atomic tests by South Africa would not be purely platonic.
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek Platōnikos, from Platōn 'Plato'. See also platonic. Rhymes anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, iconic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, sardonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, tonic, transonic, ultrasonic adjectivepləˈtänikpləˈtɑnɪk (of love or friendship) intimate and affectionate but not sexual. their relationship is purely platonic Example sentencesExamples - Familial and platonic relationships are central themes in Greenfield's works.
- Have you had a platonic friendship that crossed the line and became romantic or sexual?
- Here are some things to keep in mind when the guy you want to catch under the mistletoe is more into keeping it strictly platonic.
- He has always insisted their friendship was "platonic".
- Our realtionship started out as platonic but quickly grew into something much more.
- The widowed pair found their platonic arrangement suited them both.
- Rossetti had been in love with Jane since 1857, and in the 1870s, in her husband's absence, the pair enjoyed a perhaps not altogether platonic affair.
- The pair have always insisted their relationship was purely platonic.
- The relationship is platonic, like a brother-sister relationship.
- Modern readers continue to debate whether the poems express platonic friendship or sexual love.
- Until now, our relationship has remained completely platonic.
- She has resigned herself to the fact that their relationship is purely platonic and will never be anything more.
- The relationship between Bob and Charlotte remains at the film's core, and remains platonic despite strong sexual undercurrents.
- It is a purely platonic friendship, we are good company for each other.
- Thirty previously unseen letters from the writer to the German-born actress and singer reveal an intense and flirtatious but apparently platonic relationship.
- The couple decide to try a live-in relationship, primarily platonic, though the boundaries soon dissipate.
- I've had several lady friends over the years, but our relationships have been platonic.
- They do not expect relationships, either sexual or platonic, to last a lifetime.
Synonyms non-sexual, non-physical, chaste
Origin Mid 17th century: from Platonic, with reference to a discussion of love in the Symposium by Plato. adjectivepləˈtänikpləˈtɑnɪk 1Of or associated with the Greek philosopher Plato or his ideas. readers of the Platonic dialogues a kind of Platonic ideal of a New York City apartment Example sentencesExamples - Philo adopted the Platonic concept of the soul with its tripartite division.
- I think that Greek Tragedy and the Platonic dialogues are positively riddled with irony.
- Even in democracies, however, there are fascinating relics of the Platonic image of the guardians.
- The novel has no Platonic form, and there is certainly no requirement that writers adhere to a formula or set of rules.
- We stagger round with the Platonic idea (from the Symposium) that we can love only one other person.
- Otherwise, the picture we get of the Academy is of a centre for discussions, with no indication that students went there to learn Platonic doctrines.
- To answer this question, one might begin by contrasting, at least in a crude way, a Humean with a Platonic conception of practical reasoning.
- An authoritarian response would be to delegate power to a paternalistic dictator, a Platonic philosopher king.
- According to Platonic philosophy, mathematics is the proper training for understanding the Universe as it is, as opposed to how it appears.
- The reality of such common objects of experience also earned a philosophical sanction from Platonic idealism.
- He also accepted the Platonic distinction between the real and the phenomenal, with which this ideal often was associated.
- All this might point to a tacit disappointment with the cinema as we know it and a yearning for the Platonic ideal we dream it capable of.
- This is the convergence of the real and the abstract, the Platonic ideal and its inferior shadow, matter and energy.
- Garbo's face, still, white, perfect, like a mask, resembles the timeless Platonic ideal of beauty as it exists in the mind of God.
- Madison shows that Nietzsche directed his critique of Platonic science at the assumption that science represents reality.
- It would not have been difficult for him to find Greek copies of Platonic dialogues at either Carthage or Rome, where he taught for a time.
- Resurrection meant life after life after death, and that was impossible for all Greeks, Homeric or Platonic.
- The Greek, especially the Platonic, tradition saw the soul and body as utterly distinct and separate entities.
- My understanding of both Scripture and Platonic philosophy is far too limited to provide a sufficient response.
- We might think that we are no better off in understanding Medea after learning of the Stoic - Platonic dispute over the right way to interpret what is going on in her.
- But like many people who spend too long in front of their computers, he's talking about a Platonic ideal rather than the real world.
2Confined to words, theories, or ideals, and not leading to practical action. Example sentencesExamples - It would be more useful if our West European partners' position was less platonic and if they made a more energetic and persistent effort to pound it into the Americans.
- An anti-capitalist movement must be equal to this, otherwise it will not be effective, unless of course you intend your movement to be merely Platonic.
- An eminent diplomatic commentator wrote that the action taken by France in response to atomic tests by South Africa would not be purely platonic.
Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek Platōnikos, from Platōn ‘Plato’. See also platonic. |