platonic

• Platonic
• Platonick
• platonick

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɒnɪk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɔnɪk/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /pləˈtɑnɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk

platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)

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

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

2. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     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.

• romantic, sexual

• platicon

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platonic m (feminine singular platonica, masculine plural platonics, feminine plural platonicas)

1. platonic

• Platon

Borrowed from French platonique. By surface analysis, Platon +‎ -ic.

• IPA^(key): /plaˈto.nik/

platonic m or n (feminine singular platonică, masculine plural platonici, feminine and neuter plural platonice)

1. platonic

• Platon

• “platonic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025