Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun neoplatonism

1 sense of neoplatonism

Sense 1
Neoplatonism -- (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")
       => philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory -- (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
       => theological doctrine -- (the doctrine of a religious group)