Nouns denoting goals
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- irrational impulse
- a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- occasion
- reason
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- life
- a motive for living
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- voice of conscience
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- signal
- any incitement to action
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
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