motivation
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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 behaviortypes:moralemotivation based on ideas of right and wrongraisona rational motive for a belief or actionimpulsiona strong spontaneous and irrational motivationconscience, sens moralmotivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actionsprovocationsomething that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to actiontype of:chose du psychismea feature of the mental life of a living organism
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