Nouns denoting goals
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- occasion
- reason
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- life
- a motive for living
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
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