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principle

a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy"

a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields"

a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works"

a rule or standard especially of good behavior; "a man of principle"; "he will not violate his principles"

rule of personal conduct

Synonyms:

• Procrustean law,
• a belief,
• a priori truth,
• activity,
• ambition,
• antecedents,
• article of faith,
• aspiration,
• at bottom,
• attitude,
• axiom,
• base,
• basement,
• basically,
• basis,
• bearing wall,
• bed,
• bedding,
• bedrock,
• belief,
• brocard,
• call,
• calling,
• campaign,
• canon,
• causation,
• cause,
• cause and effect,
• center,
• code,
• commandment,
• commitment,
• conscience,
• consideration,
• convention,
• core,
• credo,
• creed,
• criterion,
• crusade,
• determinant,
• determinative,
• dictate,
• dictum,
• doctrine,
• dogma,
• drive,
• element,
• elements,
• elixir,
• essence,
• essential,
• essentially,
• ethic,
• etiology,
• factor,
• faith,
• floor,
• flooring,
• flower,
• focus,
• fond,
• footing,
• form,
• formality,
• formula,
• formulary,
• foundation,
• fundament,
• fundamental,
• fundamentally,
• fundamentals,
• general principle,
• gist,
• given,
• goal,
• golden rule,
• grammar,
• gravamen,
• great cause,
• ground,
• grounds,
• groundwork,
• guide,
• guideline,
• guiding light,
• guiding principle,
• guiding star,
• hardpan,
• heart,
• honesty,
• hypostasis,
• idea,
• ideal,
• ideally,
• imperative,
• in essence,
• in theory,
• inner essence,
• inspiration,
• integrity,
• intention,
• interest,
• issue,
• kernel,
• law,
• law of nature,
• lifework,
• lodestar,
• mainspring,
• marrow,
• mass movement,
• matter,
• maxim,
• meat,
• mitzvah,
• model,
• moral,
• morality,
• morals,
• motive,
• movement,
• norm,
• norma,
• notion,
• nub,
• nucleus,
• nuts and bolts,
• occasion,
• order of nature,
• ordinance,
• pavement,
• philosophy,
• pith,
• point of view,
• postulate,
• precept,
• prescribed form,
• prescription,
• principium,
• principles,
• probity,
• proposition,
• quid,
• quiddity,
• quintessence,
• radical,
• reason,
• reason for being,
• regulation,
• riprap,
• rock bottom,
• rubric,
• rudiment,
• rudiments,
• rule,
• sake,
• sap,
• score,
• seat,
• self-evident truth,
• sentiment,
• set form,
• settled principle,
• sill,
• solid ground,
• solid rock,
• soul,
• source,
• spirit,
• spring,
• standard,
• standing order,
• stereobate,
• stimulus,
• stuff,
• stylobate,
• substance,
• substratum,
• substruction,
• substructure,
• teaching,
• tenet,
• terra firma,
• the nitty-gritty,
• theorem,
• theoretically,
• truism,
• truth,
• ulterior motive,
• underbuilding,
• undercarriage,
• undergirding,
• underpinning,
• understruction,
• understructure,
• universal law,
• universal truth,
• uprightness,
• usage,
• viewpoint,
• vocation,
• working principle,
• working rule