Antonyms of noun reality_principle

1 sense of reality principle

Sense 1
reality principle -- ((psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it)
       Antonym of pleasure principle (Sense 1)
      => pleasure principle, 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)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reality_principle

1 sense of reality principle

Sense 1
reality principle -- ((psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it)
       => principle -- (a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy")

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