pleasure-pain principle

Questions about pleasure-pain principle

What is another word for pleasure-pain principle?

It depends which pleasure-pain principle you mean. In the sense “(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality”, the synonyms are pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pleasure-pain principle?

WordNet records no antonym for pleasure-pain principle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pleasure-pain principle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pleasure-pain principle

• Full entry for pleasure-pain principleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pleasure-pain principleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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