Nouns denoting goals
- necromania
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- occasion
- reason
- irresistible impulse
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- ground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- conscience
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- ethical motive
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- possession
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- incitation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- dynamic
- an efficient incentive
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- account
- grounds
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- signal
- any incitement to action
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
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