Synonym: Platonic. Similar words: neoplatonism, plate tectonics, all at once, bubonic plague, atone, sonic, bionic, ironic. Meaning: [plə'tɒnɪk] adj. 1. of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy 2. free from physical desire.
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31. He is a Platonic philosopher.
32. Platonic love : Before marriage, Platonic love is best.
33. Many people know his famous allegation of Platonic love.
34. Isn't it true that your relationship with my client is entirely platonic?
35. Loving feelings include the passion, intimacy, and desire that accompany romantic love and the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love.
36. The neo - platonic Gnostic school of Alexandria became its centre in the first centuries A . D .
37. It wasn't adopted by monotheistic religions or held up as a central natural truth. Instead, pure Platonic ideals won out, perhaps because they seemed more divine.
38. A departure from Platonic perfection is predicted to be caused by the particle's electric dipole moment.
39. Hostesses are not prostitutes; they are more like paid, platonic girlfriends.
40. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse.
41. Jake: an unsuccessful - yet well endowed - underwear model in L. A,(sentencedict.com/platonic.html) who finds a lucrative new line of work as a platonic escort for women of a certain age.
42. And modern science, he believes, provides evidence to show that the Platonic view is just plain wrong. He titled his article "Let Platonism Die."
43. In summary, the Platonic scenario is dominantly inductive deductive, while the Aristotelian scenario is dominantly inductive - abductive.
44. But ritual remains that we must do a series of platonic actions before we can have intercourse. But all I really want to do is have sex with you as soon as possible.
45. On the other hand, deductive reasoning plays a significant role in the Platonic approach.
46. That is completely different from what happens in a Platonic perspective.
47. Aristotle tried his utmost to avoid the Platonic route of drawing blueprints for the "perfect" as well as the "second-best" state.
48. Neither must we attempt to confine the Platonic dialogue on the Procrustes bed of a single idea.
49. Maggie maintained on the witness stand that theirs had been a case of platonic love.
50. She is living by Victorian principles; right now their relationship is based on platonic love.
51. And it’s certainly not reserved just for people we want to mate with; married people flirt with no adulterous intentions and platonic flirting happens all the time.
52. We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
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