Nouns denoting goals
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- life
- a motive for living
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- passion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- moral sense
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
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