pleasure principle
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts."
- "Health, too, was a consideration, though it was very much pleasure-principle health—the right to wring out every last throb of ecstasy from one's knackered organs."
- "They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around."
- "The pleasure principle is, on the whole, a sound one, then: having what you like is fine so long as you don't have too much of it in one go."