impulse :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road"

n. the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus"

impulsion, impetus

n. the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over"

pulse, pulsation, pulsing

n. (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"

whim, caprice, vagary

n. a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

urge, irrational impulse

n. a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"

eccentricity

n. strange and unconventional behavior

hope

n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

illusion, fancy, fantasy, phantasy

n. something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

notion

n. a general inclusive concept

notion, whimsy, whimsey, whim

n. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

inclination

n. that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking; "her inclination is for classical music"

motivation, motive, need

n. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

fondness, fancy, partiality

n. a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"

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