Innate energy, vigour, or power. Also: self-motivation. Now rare.
Originally Psychology. The (conscious or unconscious) stimulus for action towards a desired goal, esp. as resulting from psychological or social…
Psychology. Any innate, biologically determined, or learned urge which has the power to motivate the actions or behaviour of an individual, and…
Subcategories:
— specific (2)
— motive (43)
— regarding or taking into account as motive (2)
— state of being without motive (1)
— research into (3)
— incitement or instigation (259)