Nouns denoting goals
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- 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
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- signal
- any incitement to action
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
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