Nouns denoting goals
- necromania
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- account
- grounds
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- signal
- any incitement to action
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
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