Usually means: Deep affection without romantic involvement.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. platonic love: Merriam-Webster
  2. platonic love: Wordnik
  3. platonic love: Wiktionary
  4. Platonic love: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Platonic love, platonic love: Dictionary.com
  6. Platonic love: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Platonic Love: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  8. Platonic Love: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. platonic love: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Platonic love: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. platonic love: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (platonic love)

▸ noun:  Intimate but non-sexual affection.

Similar:
romantic friendship, true love, love, romance, affectionate friendship, love-in, truelove, amour courtois, agape, flirtationship, more...

Types:
agape, philia, storge, pragma, ludus, philautia, philostorgos, philemia, more...

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Similar:
romantic friendship, true love, love, romance, affectionate friendship, love-in, truelove, amour courtois, agape, flirtationship, more...

Types:
agape, philia, storge, pragma, ludus, philautia, philostorgos, philemia, more...



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