motive :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music

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"

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motor

adj. causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy"

motivative, motivating

adj. impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"

air, strain, line, melody, tune, melodic phrase, melodic line

n. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"

leitmotiv, leitmotif

n. a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)

compulsion, obsession

n. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will

inducement, incentive

n. a positive motivational influence

provocation, incitation, incitement

n. something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action

ground, reason

n. a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"

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"

drive

n. the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers"

initiative, enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead

n. readiness to embark on bold new ventures

ambition, ambitiousness

n. a strong drive for success

purpose, intention

n. (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal; "his intentions are entirely honorable"

awakening, wakening

n. the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most"

excitation, excitement

n. something that agitates and arouses; "he looked forward to the excitements of the day"

excitement, exhilaration

n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed"

stirring, inspiration

n. arousing to a particular emotion or action

suggestion, prompting

n. persuasion formulated as a suggestion

boost, encouragement

n. the act of giving hope or support to someone

reassurance

n. the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

urging

n. the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging

abortifacient

adj. causing abortion

activating, actuating

adj. causing motion or action or change

anorectic, anorexigenic

adj. causing loss of appetite; "an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug"

causal, causative of

adj. involving or constituting a cause; causing; "a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices"

conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory, contributive to

adj. tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor"

errhine

adj. causing nasal discharge

inductive, inducive

adj. inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton

motive, motivative, motivating