Nouns denoting goals
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- morals
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- conscience
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
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