platonic C2 Topic:Describing Qualities US /pləˈtɒnɪk/ UK /pləˈtɒnɪk/ See IPA manual Freq #20792 Meanings 1 adj free from physical desire Platonic love. 2 adj of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy Platonic dialogues. 3 adj Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual). 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. 4 adj Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love. They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic. Thesaurus ↔ Opposites romanticsexual Word family Derived forms aplatonicnonplatonicplatonicallyquasiplatonicqueerplatonicsemiplatonic Appears in Phrases (1) See all platonic love affection that involves emotional closeness without sexual desire Adjective + noun 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. Topics Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # platonic **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /pləˈtɒnɪk/ **IPA (UK):** /pləˈtɒnɪk/ **Frequency rank:** 20792 ## Meanings 1. free from physical desire 2. of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy 3. Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual). 4. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love. ## Examples - Platonic love. - Platonic dialogues. - 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. ## Antonyms - romantic - sexual ## Derived Forms - aplatonic - nonplatonic - platonically - quasiplatonic - queerplatonic - semiplatonic ## 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. ## Topics - Describing Qualities - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown