Nouns denoting goals
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- occasion
- reason
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- passion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
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