Nouns denoting goals
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- account
- grounds
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- life
- a motive for living
- signal
- any incitement to action
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- moral sense
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- occasion
- reason
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
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