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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