Aplatonic

Aplatonic describes people who experience little or no platonic attraction toward other people. Platonic attraction means the desire to form a friendship or a non-romantic, non-sexual closeness with a specific person.

Being aplatonic does not automatically mean that a person does not want social contact, affection, or relationships. Some aplatonic people have friendships or other committed connections, but experience the impulse toward them differently, less often, or not as a specific attraction to individual people.

The term can be especially helpful for people who want to describe their experience of friendship, closeness, and bonding more precisely. As with all identity terms, the individual decides whether “aplatonic” accurately describes their experience.