Nouns denoting goals
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- moral sense
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- occasion
- reason
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- necrophilia
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
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