Neoplatonism noun. [ni:ǝʊ'pleɪtǝnɪz(ǝ)m] M19.
[from NEO- + PLATONISM.]
A philosophical and religious system based on Platonic ideas and originating with Plotinus in the 3rd cent. AD, which emphasizes the distinction between a supposed eternal world and the changing physical world, and combines this with a mystic possibility of union with the supreme being from which all reality is supposed to derive.

■ Neoplatonist noun & adjective (a) noun an originator or adherent of Neoplatonism; (b) adjective = NEOPLATONIC adjective: M19.

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