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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
neoplatonism is a noun meaning "a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable". It carries one recorded sense.
a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable
“Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century”
“Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neoplatonism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.