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Yay! I love you Qwark! (In a platonic way of course) *glomps* I can get the vest! Woohoo!

It means I love you like a sister? Not sexual? I think..but that's what I meant. xD

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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
Pla·ton·ic /pləˈtɒnɪk, pleɪ-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pluh-ton-ik, pley-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
2. pertaining to, involving, or characterized by Platonic love as a striving toward love of spiritual or ideal beauty.
3. (usually lowercase) purely spiritual; free from sensual desire, esp. in a relationship between two persons of the opposite sex.
4. (usually lowercase) feeling or professing platonic love: He insisted that he was completely platonic in his admiration.


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[Origin: 1525–35; < L Platōnicus < Gk Platōnikós, equiv. to Platōn-, s. of Plátōn Plato + -ikos, -ic]

—Related forms
Pla·ton·i·cal·ly, adverb
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source Pla·ton·ic (plə-tŏn'ĭk, plā-) Pronunciation Key
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy: Platonic dialogues; Platonic ontology.
often platonic Transcending physical desire and tending toward the purely spiritual or ideal: platonic love.
often platonic Speculative or theoretical.


[After Plato.]

Pla·ton'i·cal·ly adv.

Word History: Plato did not invent the term or the concept that bears his name, but he did see sexual desire as the germ for higher loves. Marsilio Ficino, a Renaissance follower of Plato, used the terms amor socraticus and amor platonicus interchangeably for a love between two humans that was preparatory for the love of God. From Ficino's usage, Platonic (already present in English as an adjective to describe what related to Plato and first recorded in 1533) came to be used for a spiritual love between persons of opposite sexes. In our own century Platonic has been used of relationships between members of the same sex. Though the concept is an elevated one, the term has perhaps more often been applied in ways that led Samuel Richardson to have one of his characters in Pamela say, "I am convinced, and always was, that Platonic love is Platonic nonsense."

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source
Platonic

1533, "of or pertaining to Gk. philosopher Plato" (429 B.C.E.-c.347 B.C.E.). The name is Gk. Platon, properly "broad-shouldered" (from platys "broad"); his original name was Aristocles. The meaning "love (for one of the opposite sex) free of sensual desire" (1631), which the word usually carries nowadays, is a Renaissance notion; it is based on Plato's writings in "Symposium" about the kind of interest Socrates took in young men, which originally had no reference to women.

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WordNet - Cite This Source platonic

adjective
1. of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"
2. free from physical desire; "platonic love"

WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University

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