Nouns denoting goals
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- 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
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- passion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- signal
- any incitement to action
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- logomania
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
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