platonic

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We can argue all day about a platonic world of argument and enlightenment where tone doesn't matter...

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of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"

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adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"

adjective

free from physical desire; "platonic love"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for platonic.

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy; "Platonic dialogues"

adjective

free from physical desire; "platonic love"

Example sentences

We can argue all day about a platonic world of argument and enlightenment where tone doesn't matter...

You can't take a tractor and, with a few lines of code, abstract it into a platonic ideal that can also spit out cars, buses, trains, planes, ships and the starship Enterprise.

Essentially we need to train people on the difference between platonic ideals and the realities of the scenario.

There's no platonic ideal of Security that exists in a vacuum, unaffected by the economic/convenience/performance/etc costs.

From a Time Magazine story from 2007: The iPhone is a typical piece of Ive design: an\n austere, abstract, platonic-looking form that\n somehow also manages to feel warm and organic and\n ergonomic.