Hypernyms for "principle"
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                    accounting principle
                    accounting standard
                    basic principle
                    basics
                    bedrock
                    caveat emptor
                    chivalry
                    conservation
                    dialectics
                    dictate
                    ethic
                    feng shui
                    fundamental principle
                    fundamentals
                    Gestalt law of organization
                    Gestalt principle of organization
                    Gresham''s Law
                    Hellenism
                    higher law
                    Huygens'' principle of superposition
                    hypothetical imperative
                    insurrectionism
                    judicial doctrine
                    judicial principle
                    knightliness
                    law of parsimony
                    Le Chatelier principle
                    Le Chatelier-Braun principle
                    Le Chatelier''s law
                    Le Chatelier''s principle
                    legal principle
                    localisation
                    localisation of function
                    localisation principle
                    localization
                    localization of function
                    localization principle
                    logic
                    mass action
                    mass-action principle
                    mass-energy equivalence
                    moral principle
                    Naegele''s rule
                    Occam''s Razor
                    Ockham''s Razor
                    pillar
                    pleasure principle
                    pleasure-pain principle
                    pleasure-unpleasure principle
                    principle of equivalence
                    principle of liquid displacement
                    principle of parsimony
                    principle of superposition
                    reality principle
                    scruple
                    superposition
                    superposition principle
                    Tao
                    value orientation
                    value-system
                    yang
                    yin
            
    What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.