Nouns denoting goals
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- life
- a motive for living
- signal
- any incitement to action
- occasion
- reason
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
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