Nouns denoting goals
- hedonism
- the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle
- adience
- (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object
- passion
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- motivator
- a positive motivational influence
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- alcoholism
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- rational motive
- a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- sense of shame
- a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility
- mental energy
- an actuating force or factor
- logorrhea
- pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- incitement
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- account
- grounds
- compulsion
- an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
- signal
- any incitement to action
- Christ Within
- a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
- scruples
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- kleptomania
- an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- wee small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
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