Nouns denoting goals
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- account
- grounds
- signal
- any incitement to action
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- inducement
- a positive motivational influence
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- life
- a motive for living
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
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