platonic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   free from physical desire

   Platonic love.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy

   Platonic dialogues.

3. 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. 4
   adj

   Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.

   They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

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.

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