NEOPLATONISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Neoplatonism mean? 

• NEOPLATONISM (noun)
  The noun NEOPLATONISM has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NEOPLATONISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEOPLATONISM (noun)

Sense 1

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

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy

Hypernyms ("Neoplatonism" is a kind of...):

philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)

theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)