Nouns denoting goals
- life
- a motive for living
- necrophilism
- an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- trichotillomania
- an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- phaneromania
- an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- psychic energy
- an actuating force or factor
- sense of right and wrong
- motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
- dipsomania
- an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- impulse
- an instinctive motive
- egomania
- an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- Thanatos
- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
- irrational motive
- a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
- score
- grounds
- wherefore
- the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores'
- acathexis
- (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual
- cacoethes
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- incentive
- a positive motivational influence
- small voice
- an inner voice that judges your behavior
- onomatomania
- obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
- compulsion
- an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
- abience
- (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object
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