Nouns denoting goals
- necromania
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- score
- grounds
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- signal
- any incitement to action
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
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