different between platonic vs plutonic

English

Alternative forms

• Platonic
• Platonick
• platonick

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??t?n?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pl??t?n?k/

Adjective

platonic (comparative more platonic, superlative most platonic)

1. Neither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.

   They are good friends, but their relationship is strictly platonic.

2. Alternative letter-case form of Platonic (of or relating to the philosophical views of Plato and his successors).
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:

     Plato gave so brilliant and impressive a defense of this common human feeling, that the doctrine of the reality of abstract objects has been known as the platonic theory of ideas ever since.

Antonyms

• romantic, sexual

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• platicon

Romanian

Etymology

From French platonique

Adjective

platonic m or n (feminine singular platonic?, masculine plural platonici, feminine and neuter plural platonice)

1. platonic

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plu??t?n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /plu?t?n?k/
• Hyphenation: plu?ton?ic

Etymology 1

See Plutonic.

Adjective

plutonic (comparative more plutonic, superlative most plutonic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Plutonic

Etymology 2

From pluton(ium) +? -ic.

Adjective

plutonic (not comparable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Containing plutonium in a higher oxidation state.

Related terms

• plutonous

Romanian

Etymology

From French plutonique.

Adjective

plutonic m or n (feminine singular plutonic?, masculine plural plutonici, feminine and neuter plural plutonice)

1. Plutonic

Declension