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RELATED WORDS : accounting principle archimedes' principle basic principle bitter principle exclusion principle first principle fundamental principle gestalt principle of organization gold of pleasure guiding principle huygens' principle of superposition in principle indeterminacy principle judicial principle lady of pleasure le chatelier principle le chatelier's principle le chatelier-braun principle legal principle life principle localisation principle localization principle mass-action principle moral principle pauli exclusion principle pleasure pleasure boat pleasure craft pleasure ground pleasure seeker pleasure seeking pleasure trip pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle principle principle of equivalence principle of liquid displacement principle of parsimony principle of relativity principle of superposition reality principle sexual pleasure superposition principle uncertainty principle vital principle working principle

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Noun pleasure principle has 1 sense

• pleasure principle(n = noun.cognition) pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle - (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality; Array
is a kind of principle
Antonym: reality principle

THESAURUS

pleasure principle

Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, anima, appetite, appetitiveness, ardor, coconscious, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, drive, eagerness, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict, epicureanism, epicurism, ethical hedonism, ethical self, eudaemonism, fancy, fantasy, foreconscious, hedonic calculus, hedonics, hedonism, hope, horme, id, intellectual curiosity, libidinal energy, libido, lust for learning, luxuriousness, luxury, mind, motive force, need, passion, persona, personality, pleasure, pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, preconscious, primitive self, psyche, psychic apparatus, psychological hedonism, racial unconscious, self, sensualism, sensuality, sensualness, sexual desire, subconscious, subconscious mind, subliminal, subliminal self, submerged mind, superego, sybaritism, thirst for knowledge, unchastity, unconscious, unconscious mind, urge, vital impulse, voluptuousness, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment

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