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philiac

philiac adjective: involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.

Adjective

philiac (comparative more philiac, superlative most philiac)

  1. Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
    • Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328
    • Our theme is the philiac or friendly function of Mind at Large.1985, Michael Grosso, The final choice: playing the survival game, page 197

Noun

philiac (plural philiacs)

  1. A person who has a philia.
    • Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.1914, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, The American Journal of Psychology, page 360
    • The "philiacs" and '"phobiacs" are, of course, comparable to Robertson's perpetuators of HE and SHE scenarios, and also correspond to Piatt's separation of continued-growth advocates from the supporters of conserver and transformational societies1981, JGE - Volume 33, page 82

Examples of philiac in a sentence

  • ...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model.2007, Alice Spencer, Dialogues of Love and Government:
  • Now, philiac sexuality is by no means restricted to homosexuality, nor, obviously, are all homosexual relationships philiac in nature.2013, Gilles Herrada, The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love, →ISBN:
  • And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.1991, Marcus Cunliffe, In search of America: transatlantic essays, 1951-1990, page 399:

Forms of philiac

Adjective
comparativemore philiac
superlativemost philiac
Noun
pluralphiliacs

Questions about philiac

What does philiac mean?
Philiac means involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
How do you use philiac in a sentence?
...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model.
What part of speech is philiac?
Philiac can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near philiac in the dictionary

  1. Philhellenists
  2. philhippic
  3. Philhower
  4. Philhowers
  5. philia
  6. philiac
  7. philiacs
  8. philias
  9. philiater
  10. philiaters
  11. philibeg

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