Usually means: Guiding behavior based on reality.
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  1. reality principle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. reality principle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. reality principle: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. reality principle: Wiktionary
  6. reality principle: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. reality principle: Dictionary.com
  8. Reality principle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. reality principle: FreeDictionary.org
  11. reality principle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. reality principle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. reality principle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. reality principle: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reality principle)

noun:  (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism, often hyphenated when used attributively) The mental mechanism which guides a person, as he or she matures, in adapting to and coping with the real, external world, by suppressing or deferring the childish gratification-seeking desires of the id.

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