Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
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;
- Example: "Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century"- Example: "Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Neoplatonism \Ne`o*pla"to*nism\, n. [Neo- + Platonism.]
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which
Plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205-270), and which sought to
reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental
theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the
last product of Greek philosophy.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Neoplatonism
n 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;
"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"