Nouns denoting goals
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- occasion
- reason
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- signal
- any incitement to action
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- conscience
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
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