Nouns denoting goals
- life
- a motive for living
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- incitement
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- account
- grounds
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- irresistible impulse
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- 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)
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- necrophilia
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
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