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platonic

[pluh-ton-ik, pley-] / pləˈtɒn ɪk, pleɪ- /
ADJECTIVE
expressing nonphysical love
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Physicists describe this informational layer as a "Platonic realm," a mathematical foundation more real than the physical world we perceive.

From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2025

“It was a great wave, and it crashed,” Mr Fortin said after a day flying his drones on the AppleTV+ show Platonic - his first gig with drones since April.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

The Apple Pan, a small restaurant in Los Angeles where just about everything is as it was 76 years ago, is the Platonic ideal of a no-frills 1940s diner.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Seth is so funny, physically, comedically, so that was really fun on "Platonic."

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald