NEOPLATONISM


Meaning of NEOPLATONISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌnē-ō-ˈplā-tə-ˌni-zəm ]

noun

Date: 1845

1. : Platonism modified in later antiquity to accord with Aristotelian, post-Aristotelian, and eastern conceptions that conceives of the world as an emanation from an ultimate indivisible being with whom the soul is capable of being reunited in trance or ecstasy

2. : a doctrine similar to ancient Neoplatonism

• Neo·pla·ton·ic -plə-ˈtä-nik, -plā- adjective

• Neo·pla·to·nist -ˈplā-tə-nist noun

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