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Etymology

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From Plato +‎ -n- +‎ -esque.

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Adjective

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Platonesque (comparative more Platonesque, superlative most Platonesque)

  1. Reminiscent of the ancient philosopher Plato.
    • 1961, Geoffrey Lapage, Art and the Scientist, page 106:
      [] the Platonic — or should we say the Platonesque — ideas to which we seem to have returned.