mental energy

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mental energy - an actuating force or factor psychic energymotivation, 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"incitation, provocation, incitement - something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to actionlibidinal energy - (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido