Definitions
Affectionate or ideal without physical desire.
Word origin
From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Platon (“Plato”) + -ic (“relating to”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Free from physical desire”8 letters
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