Nouns denoting goals
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- necromania
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- inducement
- a positive motivational influence
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
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