Definition of Platanic
{ Pla*ton"ic (?), Pla*ton"ic*al (?), }
a. [L. Platonicus, Gr. &?;: cf. F.
platonique.] 1. Of or pertaining to Plato,
or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual;
philosophical.
Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical
solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron,
dodecahedron, and icosahedron. -- Platonic
love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between
persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding
the mind only and its excellences; -- a species of love for which
Plato was a warm advocate. -- Platonic year
(Astron.), a period of time determined by the revolution of
the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and
constellations return to their former places in respect to the
equinoxes; -- called also great year. This revolution, which is
caused by the precession of the equinoxes, is accomplished in about
26,000 years. Barlow.
Pla*ton"ic, n. A follower of Plato;
a Platonist.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic
Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a
frost.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies
- not sexual in nature
They are friends, but the relationship is strictly platonic.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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