Nouns denoting goals
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- signal
- any incitement to action
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- conscience
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
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