platonic love
Deep nonsexual affection
Platonic love is deep affection between people that doesn't involve sexual attraction or romantic involvement.
The bond is emotional and spiritual rather than physical: Their platonic love lasted decades, outliving both their marriages.
The term derives from Plato's writings on love as the pursuit of spiritual beauty rather than bodily pleasure. (Capitalized Platonic love emphasizes the philosophical origin.)
State of having company
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
- bondingForming close connections
- closenessState of proximity
- connectionA joining or relation
rapport · fellowship · kinship · confidante · trust · loyalty · support · understanding
Abstaining from sexual activity
- unconsummatedNot brought to completion
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- unromanticWithout tender feeling
- asexualWithout erotic attraction
celibate · innocent · pure · respectful · boundaries · emotional · spiritual · sincere
Advice for decisions
- protégéPerson guided by expert
- teacherOne who instructs others
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- coachingGuiding others to improve
nurturing · counseling · inspiration · influence · encouragement · development · growth · advice
Concerned with others' welfare
- altruisticConcerned for others' welfare
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- compassionateShowing concern for sufferers
- generousWilling to give freely
patient · forgiving · supportive · benevolent · sacrificial · empathetic · nurturing · accepting
companionship
State of having company
- camaraderieGoodwill among companions
- bondingForming close connections
- closenessState of proximity
connection · rapport · fellowship · kinship · confidante · trust · loyalty · support · understanding · empathy
chaste
Abstaining from sexual activity
- unconsummatedNot brought to completion
- nonphysicalNot of matter
- unromanticWithout tender feeling
asexual · celibate · innocent · pure · respectful · boundaries · emotional · spiritual · sincere · restraint
guidance
Advice for decisions
- protégéPerson guided by expert
- teacherOne who instructs others
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
coaching · nurturing · counseling · inspiration · influence · encouragement · development · growth · advice · tutoring
selfless
Concerned with others' welfare
- altruisticConcerned for others' welfare
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- compassionateShowing concern for sufferers
generous · patient · forgiving · supportive · benevolent · sacrificial · empathetic · nurturing · accepting · tolerant
- loveadoration, affection, amour, attraction, beloved
- friendship conceptsloyalty, trust, companionship, mutual respect, empathy
- love conceptssoulmates, romantic idealism, passion, devotion, longing
- Platoallegory, the Republic, Republic, Symposium, allegory of the cave
- story bondsfriendship, enemies to lovers, soulmates, rivals, enemies
- friendship prosecamaraderie, companionship, togetherness
platonic loveerotic love
Passionate romantic desire
physical love · sexual attraction · eros · romantic love · lust
platonic lovelove affair
Romantic relationship, often intense
infatuation · courtship · marriage · dating
love, academic, academy, Platonic, platonic, Plato, Platonism, Platonist