Term: pleasure principle: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
Candidate hypernym: principle: a basic truth or law or assumption → 1
Candidate hypernym: metric system: a decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus spirillum: a genus of bacteria → 0
Candidate hypernym: spiderwort: any plant of the family Commelinaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: number: the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals → 0
Candidate hypernym: nongovernmental organization: an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government → 0
Candidate hypernym: poultryman: a dealer in poultry and poultry products → 0
Candidate hypernym: inflexibility: a lack of physical flexibility → 0
Candidate hypernym: damask: a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern → 0
Candidate hypernym: aplastic anemia: anemia characterized by pancytopenia resulting from failure of the bone marrow; can be caused by neoplasm or by toxic exposure → 0
Candidate hypernym: pudding: (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) → 0