philiac
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
Example Sentences
- "Erotic love is selfish love, philiac love is a mutual giving that ceases when mutuality ceases."
- "Our theme is the philiac or friendly function of Mind at Large."
- "...the more philiac world-views of Gower and Hoccleve tend rather to reject dialogue and favour compilatio as a literary model."
- "Now, philiac sexuality is by no means restricted to homosexuality, nor, obviously, are all homosexual relationships philiac in nature."
- "Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs."
- "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"