Nouns denoting goals
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- sense of duty
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- inducement
- a positive motivational influence
- irresistible impulse
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- charge
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- account
- grounds
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- mania
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- wanderlust
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- disincentive
- a negative motivational influence
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- necrophilia
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- signal
- any incitement to action
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