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Definition

a loving relationship or feeling that does not have a sexual aspect

She describes her love for him as platonic.

platonic = not having a sexual aspect

He formed a platonic friendship with a lady some years older than himself, who lived in Kensington Square; and nearly every afternoon he drank tea with her by the light of shaded candles,
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
I think the poet desired to embody in this one picture the whole spirit of medieval chivalry and the platonic love of a pure and high-souled knight.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Platonic dialogues
...You mustn't misunderstand, Jake, it was absolutely platonic with the secretary.
Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

platonic = loving, but not sexual

And wasn't it platonic for everyone else?
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
"Perhaps they loved one another platonically," he said to himself.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
It held its little wobbly head up on its shoulders-it didn't seem to have a neck-and observed me with a wise, Platonic expression.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
The first of the Platonic Dialogues assigned is the Gorgias, and Phaedrus has a sense of having arrived.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
But same time, I hope you don't suppose this husky young Swede farmer is as innocent and Platonic and all that stuff as you are!
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
For irt those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours... In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
"Platonic love, clouds...." he muttered.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
That all these relationships were absolutely Platonic I would not affirm, and Sir William Joynson Hicks would probably deny.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
The objects of gentle, platonic courtship from older women with gnarled knuckles and indulgent laughs.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
But if she won't even see you,—and she won't,—your constancy must remain purely Platonic."
Henry James -- The American
Did you come with me quite—platonically?
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
After all, the philosopher endured this sort of platonic marriage very patiently.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The woman of great spirit who admired you platonically, just for your genius, your mills and your Metal!
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
I think the poet desired to embody in this one picture the whole spirit of medieval chivalry and the platonic love of a pure and high-souled knight.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

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