Nouns denoting goals
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- incitement
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- ethics
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- account
- grounds
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- life
- a motive for living
- signal
- any incitement to action
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
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