reality principle(n = noun.cognition) - (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it;
is a kind of principle
Antonym: pleasure principle

accounting principle, archimedes' principle, basic principle, bitter principle, exclusion principle, first principle, fundamental principle, gestalt principle of organization, guiding principle, huygens' principle of superposition, in principle, in reality, indeterminacy principle, judicial principle, le chatelier principle, le chatelier's principle, le chatelier-braun principle, legal principle, life principle, localisation principle, localization principle, mass-action principle, moral principle, pauli exclusion principle, pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle, principle, principle of equivalence, principle of liquid displacement, principle of parsimony, principle of relativity, principle of superposition, reality, reality check, superposition principle, uncertainty principle, virtual reality, vital principle, working principle