"platonic" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /pləˈtɒnɪk/ [UK], /pləˈtɔnɪk/ [US], /pləˈtɑnɪk/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-platonic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more platonic [comparative], most platonic [superlative]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Platonic}} Platonic, {{m|en|platonic love}} platonic love Head templates: {{en-adj}} platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)
  1. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love. Categories (topical): Love Translations (not sexual in nature): أَفْلَاطُونِيّ (ʔaflāṭōniyy) (Arabic), платані́чны (plataníčny) (Belarusian), платоничен (platoničen) (Bulgarian), platònic (Catalan), 柏拉圖式 (Chinese Mandarin), 柏拉图式 (Chinese Mandarin), platonický [masculine] (Czech), platonisk (Danish), platooniline (Estonian), platoninen (Finnish), platonique (French), პლატონური (ṗlaṭonuri) (Georgian), platonisch (German), πλατωνικός (platonikós) [masculine] (Greek), plátói (Hungarian), lostalaus [masculine] (Icelandic), platónskur [masculine] (Icelandic), andlegur [masculine] (Icelandic), háleitur [masculine] (Icelandic), laus við holdlega fýsn [masculine] (Icelandic), platónach (Irish), افلاطونی (aflâtuni) (Persian), platoniczny (Polish), platónico [Portugal] (Portuguese), platônico [Brazil] (Portuguese), платони́ческий (platoníčeskij) (Russian), platonický (Slovak), platónico (Spanish), платоні́чний (platoníčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-platonic-en-adj-a9MVD9CC Disambiguation of Love: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 90 10 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'not sexual in nature': 92 8
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors). Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: Platonic (extra: of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors)
    Sense id: en-platonic-en-adj-NAcZGhvq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Platonic, Platonick, platonick Derived forms: platonically, platonic love, queerplatonic

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.