Nouns denoting goals
- signal
- any incitement to action
- 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
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- moral sense
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- passion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
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