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noun

motivation n.

The act or process of motivating.

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.

Synonyms: motive, need.

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.

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Etymology of 'Motivation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Motivation" Quotes from Famous Books

... assuredly keep all who engage in them from treating themselves too tenderly. They demand such incredible efforts, depth beyond depth of exertion, both in degree and in duration, that the whole scale of motivation alters. Discomfort and annoyance, hunger and wet, pain and cold, squalor and filth, cease to have any deterrent operation whatever. Death turns into a commonplace matter, and its usual power to check our action vanishes. With the annulling of these customary inhibitions, ranges of new energy ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

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