Nouns denoting goals
- life
- a motive for living
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- occasion
- reason
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- morals
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
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