Nouns denoting goals
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- moral force
- an efficient incentive
- provocation
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- itchy feet
- very strong or irresistible impulse to travel
- occasion
- reason
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- account
- grounds
- monomania
- a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- reason
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- ethics
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- agromania
- an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- why
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- libidinal energy
- (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
- cathexis
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- obsession
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- potomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
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