motivation
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
motivation
n 1: 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: {motivation}, {motive}, {need}]
2: the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a
high level"
3: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn:
{motivation}, {motivating}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
motivation \motivation\ n.
1. The act or process of motivating.
[PJC]
2. 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.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
3. The goal or mental image of a goal that creates a
motivation[2]; as, the image of a peaceful world is a
powerful motivation for only a rare few individuals.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "motivation":
activity, actuation, animation, aptitude, aptness, brightness,
catalyst, cleverness, direction, docility, dynamics, educability,
facility, going, impetus, impressionability, impulse, incentive,
incitation, incitement, influence, inner-direction, instigation,
intelligence, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy,
kinetics, malleability, mobilization, moldability, motion, move,
movement, moving, other-direction, plasticity, pliability,
prompting, quickness, readiness, receptivity, restlessness,
running, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stir, stirring,
susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, trainableness, unrest,
velocity, willingness
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