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The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action
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Motivation is the first studio album of Moti Special , released in 1985 by Teldec label. The band members were: Danish guitarist Nils Tuxen, Romanian keyboardist Michael Cretu, bassist and vocalist Manfred "Thissy" Thiers, and drummer Reinhard "Dickie" ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE different ▪ On the inside, they are often very different people, with different motivations and aspirations, leading different lives. ▪ Obviously it's going to call for very different motivations , and ways of living, ...
WordNet
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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" [syn: motive ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Willingness of action especially in behavior 2 The action of motivate. 3 Something which motivates. 4 An incentive or reason for doing something. 5 (context advertising English) a research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
motivation \motivation\ n. The act or process of motivating. The mental process that arouses an organism to action; as, a large part of a teacher's job is to give students the motivation to learn on their own. Syn: motive, need. The goal or mental ...
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Existential and Rankian positions that the fear of death is the mainspring of human motivation and that man needs to belong to a system of ideas in which mystery exists.
Ultimately, there can be only one theoretically correct way of understanding human psychology, motivation, neurosis and so forth.
The topic was argued between the panellists, each with their different motivations and points to prove.
Aristotle had ranked motivations in a holarchy of deepening significance.
Most attention is given to reshuffling the particularities of the family relationships among the characters and the external motivations of the plot intrigues.
He employed leading, loaded questions unsubstantiated by facts, interrupted by clowning, but hammering home his contention that profits from Tunipah would be excessive and were the major motivation.
Still angry at what he was doing, bewildered by his motivation, Goodman yanked the chocks and entered the airplane, stomping up the narrow aisleway to the cockpit.
This is done not only in an attempt to understand their motivation more deeply than pure public utterance allows, but also because so many of them, often to their ruin, saw their own lives as a seamless whole, their calendar of birth, love, ambition and death imprinted on the almanac of great events.
He soaked with the same sense of luxury that he once would have had for a hot bath, and he hoped that Angevine would understand his motivations.
Conceivably Baumer had been acting from purely personal motivations when he approached her.
Everyone at the convention had all the elements to some degree, but Curran knew it was a question of which motivation was dominant.
Combrit, already handily fixated for them, with a motivation that will make him loyal to what he considers the winning side.
At this stage one moves far from the Hinayana motivation as one directly assaults the innermost core of the ego.
Paulus Hook kids were desperate for passionate teachers, no matter where their true motivations lay.
They sell megavitamins, protein powders, and motivation magazines and tapes in there.