Nouns denoting goals
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- occasion
- reason
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- inducement
- a positive motivational influence
- morals
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- life
- a motive for living
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
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