Nouns denoting goals
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- signal
- any incitement to action
- necrophilia
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- life
- a motive for living
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
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