Nouns denoting goals
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- life
- a motive for living
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- occasion
- reason
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
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