Nouns denoting goals
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- signal
- any incitement to action
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- occasion
- reason
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- life
- a motive for living
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