Synonyms and Antonyms for pleasure-principle
1. pleasure principle (n.)
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
2. principle (n.)
a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
3. principle (n.)
a basic truth or law or assumption
4. principle (n.)
a rule or standard especially of good behavior
5. principle (n.)
a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- Gestalt principle of organization
- mass-energy equivalence
- localization principle
- Le Chatelier-Braun principle
- localisation of function
- Ockham's Razor
- superposition
- principle of liquid displacement
- Huygens' principle of superposition
- law of parsimony
- mass-action principle
- superposition principle
- Gresham's Law
- localization of function
- Occam's Razor
- localization
- Naegele's rule
- localisation
- principle of parsimony
- law of nature
- law
- Gestalt law of organization
- Le Chatelier principle
- rule
- Le Chatelier's principle
- principle of equivalence
- principle of superposition
- mass action
- localisation principle
- Le Chatelier's law
6. principle (n.)
rule of personal conduct
7. principle (n.)
(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
8. pleasure (n.)
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
