Nouns denoting goals
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- score
- grounds
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- deterrence
- a negative motivational influence
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- signal
- any incitement to action
- occasion
- reason
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
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