• Philiac

    Full definition of philiac

    Adjective

    philiac

    1. Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
      • 1971 , James L. Malfetti & ‎Elizabeth M. Eidlitz , Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection , Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases.
      • 1985 , Michael Grosso , The final choice: playing the survival game , Our theme is the philiac or friendly function of Mind at Large.
      • 2007, Alice Spencer , Dialogues of Love and Government , ...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model.
      • 2013, Gilles Herrada , The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love , Now, philiac sexuality is by no means restricted to homosexuality, nor, obviously, are all homosexual relationships philiac in nature.

    Noun

    philiac

    (plural philiacs)
    1. A person who has a philia.
      • 1914, Karl M. Dallenbach, ‎Madison Bentley, & ‎Edwin Garrigues Boring , The American Journal of Psychology , Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.
      • 1981, , JGE - Volume 33 , 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 societies
      • 1991, Marcus Cunliffe , In search of America: transatlantic essays, 1951-1990 , And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.
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