Nouns denoting goals
- pyromania
- an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- occasion
- reason
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- score
- grounds
- necrophilia
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- urge
- an instinctive motive
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- morality
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- life
- a motive for living
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