Nouns denoting goals
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- conscience
- 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
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- signal
- any incitement to action
- life
- a motive for living
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- occasion
- reason
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
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