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platonic | academism |

As an adjective platonic

is platonic.

As a noun academism is

(obsolete): the philosophy advocated by the platonic academy; platonism, skepticism.

platonic

English

Alternative forms

* platonic * platonick * Platonick

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato or his philosophies.
  • (non-sexual).
  • academism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Alternative form of academicism. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • * 1912 , Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight , T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87:
  • For art, academism' is death. ' Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]
  • * 1935 , "The Artist and His Means of Expression", The Canadian Author, Volumes 13-15 , Canadian Authors Association, page 11:
  • Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms'. […] , her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an ' academism and therefore non-contributive.

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