Usually means: Pursuit of pleasure, avoidance of pain.
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  1. pleasure principle: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleasure principle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleasure principle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pleasure principle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pleasure principle: Vocabulary.com
  6. pleasure principle: Wiktionary
  7. pleasure principle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. pleasure principle: Infoplease Dictionary
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  11. pleasure principle: Rhymezone
  12. pleasure principle: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pleasure principle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pleasure principle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pleasure principle (psychology), The Pleasure principle, pleasure principle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pleasure principle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Pleasure principle (psychology), The Pleasure principle, pleasure principle: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleasure principle)

noun:  (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.

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