Definition of Platonism
1a
: the philosophy of Plato stressing especially that actual things are copies of transcendent ideas and that these ideas are the objects of true knowledge apprehended by reminiscence
b
: neoplatonism
2
: platonic love
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The first known use of Platonism was circa 1570
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