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Love with all the longing and none of the undressing.
means Describing a deep, affectionate relationship that is intimate but explicitly non-sexual or non-romantic.
from From Plato, who in the Symposium praised a love that climbs past bodies toward pure ideas — later softened by Renaissance writers into the chaste friendship we mean today.
Plato's twistHe meant love ascending to truth, not friend-zoning.
Coined laterTerm popularized in 1600s English drama, not by Plato.
Beyond peopleGeometry's Platonic solids share the same idealist roots.