pleasure principle

Questions about pleasure principle

What is another word for pleasure principle?

It depends which pleasure 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-pain 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 principle?

The recorded antonym is reality principle. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for pleasure 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 principle

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