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: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: plant: (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion → 0
Candidate hypernym: manhole cover: a flush iron cover for a manhole (as in a street) → 0
Candidate hypernym: greed: excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves → 0
Candidate hypernym: featherweight: an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: ptomaine: a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines → 0
Candidate hypernym: suspect: someone who is under suspicion → 0
Candidate hypernym: trap-and-drain auger: a plumber's snake for clearing a trap and drain → 0
Candidate hypernym: upheaval: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) → 0
Candidate hypernym: family court: a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children) → 0
Candidate hypernym: thromboembolism: occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus that has broken away from a thrombus → 0