Nouns denoting goals
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- signal
- any incitement to action
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- ethics
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- occasion
- reason
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