philiac

English

Adjective

philiac (comparative more philiac, superlative most philiac)

1. Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
   • 1971, James L. Malfetti, Elizabeth M. Eidlitz, Perspectives on Sexuality: A Literary Collection, →ISBN, page 328:

     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, page 197:

     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, →ISBN:

     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, page 360:

     Browne gives us a long list of eminent men who were ailurophobiacs and philiacs.

   • 1981, JGE - Volume 33, page 82:

     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, page 399:

     And some Europeans have historically been "pro-American," philiacs eager to extol their dream country and to go and live there.