Nouns denoting goals
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- signal
- any incitement to action
- obsession
- 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
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- ethics
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- incitement
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
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