Nouns denoting goals
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- occasion
- reason
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- score
- grounds
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- signal
- any incitement to action
- life
- a motive for living
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
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