platonic love

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of platonic love.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. Intimate but non-sexual and non-romantic affection.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

11 more languages

Catalàamor platònic

Suomiplatoninen rakkaus

Magyarplátói szerelem

Italianoamore platonico

日本語プラトニック・ラブ

ქართულიპლატონური სიყვარული

한국어플라토닉 러브

Nederlandsplatonische liefde

Polskimiłość platoniczna

Portuguêsamor platónico/platônico

Русскийплатони́ческая любо́вь

Examples

“The practice of Platonic love⟳, of which he had formed ſo fine an idea in ſpeculation, appeared to him but a chimera in reality.”

“Ye ſanctified and holy, / Who methodiſtically prove⟳ / The force⟳ of true-⁠-⁠-Platonic love⟳, / Indulge for once with Scholey.”

“One heart, but in two bodies join’d, / By ancient writers is defin’d, / A friend in truth to prove⟳; / To me ſhe’s preſent when away, / My tender thoughts with Delia ſtay; / Is this Platonic love⟳?”

“Homosexual appetites, tastes, and fantasies, one is reminded while listening to Elliot, appear⟳ to be every bit as various as heterosexual ones, with the range of homosex—running from an almost Platonic love⟳ to sadistic lust—being no less wide than that of heterosex.”

“I didn’t know⟳ I loved the earth / can someone who hasn’t worked the earth love⟳ it / I’ve never worked the earth / it must be my only Platonic love⟳”

“Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes. Yet to take⟳ them at face⟳ value, as an innocent reading of the poem might advise⟳, would be to betray Garcilaso’s own⟳ efforts, in this sonnet and elsewhere, to expose the arbitrariness of grandiose idealist concepts such as Platonic love⟳ and providential history.”

“Aino’s Platonic love⟳ for Luiga lasted at least ten years.”

“[H]e reads in Plato’s Charmides how Socrates steals a glance⟳ inside the toga of a beautiful young man and burns. Gooding scarcely comprehends how it can be so offhand. Is this the Platonic love⟳ he has heard of? Shouldn’t it rather be called Socratic?”

“In an age when the concept of Platonic love⟳ gains little credence, selectively chosen details of the relationship and quotations from letters can easily be arranged to suggest⟳ a conclusion.”

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