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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Platonic \Pla*ton"ic\, noun A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Platonic \Pla*ton"ic\, Platonical \Pla*ton"ic*al\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Platonic
adjective
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"
2: free from physical desire; "platonic love"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "Platonic": Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Neoplatonistic, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonistic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Socratic, Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, abstinent, animist, animistic, celibate, continent, idealist, idealistic, immaterialist, intact, maidenly, panpsychist, panpsychistic, pre-Socratic, solipsistic, spiritualist, spiritualistic, vestal, virgin, virginal
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PLATONIC, adjective Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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