Nouns denoting goals
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- signal
- any incitement to action
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- life
- a motive for living
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
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