(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
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reality principle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of reality principle
reality principle
In Freudian terms, the pleasure principle is modified by the reality principle.
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A wise child, stubbornly asserting the reality principle.
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At one point Weaver, representing the reality principle, informs him that he seems less a scientist than a game-show host.
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Not even Walter Cronkite has more deftly represented the reality principle in a medium that mostly has nothing to do with it.
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As the One confers individuality it is in reality the principle of plurality.
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He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge.
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The ego operates according to the reality principle, the regulating mechanism that enables the individual to delay gratifying immediate needs and function effectively in the real world.
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Russian law is in principle valid, but in reality Finland maintains the area.
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Where were you when conservatism was untethered from principle, unhooked from reality?
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