“+ noun
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary ne- + platonism
1. : a philosophical school originating in Alexandria about A.D. 200, modifying the teachings of Plato to accord with Aristotelian, post-Aristotelian, and oriental conceptions and conceiving of the world as an emanation from the One with whom the soul is capable of being reunited in trance or ecstasy — compare emanation , nous
2. : teachings and doctrines similar to those of the ancient Neoplatonists (as those promulgated in medieval times by mystics and in the Renaissance by Italian humanists) — compare cambridge platonists