Nouns denoting goals
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- score
- grounds
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- life
- a motive for living
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
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