Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00023773-n ✪ 'the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal';

Chinese (simplified)	推动力 , 动机
English	motive ₁₈ ( ⊳ ⊳ ) , need ₁₂ , motivation ₅ ( ⊳ ⊳ )
Indonesian	rangsangan , motif , keperluan , maksud , motivasi , tujuan , dorongan , niat
Japanese	動因 , 動機

Definitions

English: 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
Japanese: 有機体が望む目的に向かって行動を起こすように仕向ける心理学的特性
行動の理由
行動に目的と方向性を与える
― われわれは彼の動機が理解できなかった; 彼は最高の動機で行動した

Relations

Hyponym:	ethical_motive irrational_motive life psychic_energy rational_motive urge
Hypernym:	psychological_feature
Semantic Field:	Tops_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▶ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.002; Future: 0.972)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.38 -0.12)