pleasure principle pleasure-pain • pleasure seeker · · · Info · Definitions · Synonyms · Antonyms · Characters · · pleasure principle · · Text Common · · Latin · · Scripts 18 · · Length Definitions · · · (noun) (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality. Synonyms: pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle. · · Noun Definition 1 Synonyms · · · pleasure · · Synonym 1 pleasance · · Synonym 2 joy · · Synonym 3 delight · · Synonym 4 Antonyms · · · pain · · Antonym 0 painfulness · · Antonym 1 Characters · · space U+0020 a latin small letter a U+0061 c latin small letter c U+0063 e latin small letter e U+0065 i latin small letter i U+0069 l latin small letter l U+006C n latin small letter n U+006E p latin small letter p U+0070 r latin small letter r U+0072 s latin small letter s U+0073 u latin small letter u U+0075