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語源

From Latin Platōnicus. By surface analysis, Platon (“Plato”) +‎ -ic (“relating to”).

発音

• IPA: /pləˈtɒnɪk/

形容詞

Platonic (not generally comparable, comparative more Platonic, superlative most Platonic)

1. Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
2. Alternative letter-case form of platonic (non-sexual).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

     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.

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名詞

Platonic (plural Platonics)

1. A Platonist; a follower of Plato's ideas.
2. A Platonic solid.

アナグラム

• platicon