en:motivation • motive • need^en

• 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
  lexical concept
• he acted with the best of motives
• we did not understand his motivation

Semantic relations

Display as 📊 diagram🗄️ table or learn more about the individual relations.

! Data may be omitted; view table for full details.

Lexical context

External links

Other