Word Study
motivation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun motivation has 3 senses
- motivation(n = noun.tops) motive, need - 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" is a kind of psychological feature
- motivation(n = noun.state) Array - the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level" is a kind of condition, status
- motivation(n = noun.act) motivating - the act of motivating; providing incentive; Array is a kind of act, deed, human action, human activity
has particulars: life, rational motive, irrational motive, impulse, urge, ethical motive, ethics, morality, morals, mental energy, psychic energy
Derived forms verb motivate1, adjective motivational1
Derived forms verb motivate1, adjective motivational1
Derived forms verb motivate1, adjective motivational1
CIDE DICTIONARY
motivation, n.
- The act or process of motivating. [PJC]
- 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. [WordNet 1.5]
- 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]
THESAURUS
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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