Meaning of MOTIVATION

Pronunciation:			`mowtu'veyshun
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the act of motivating; providing incentive [n]  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" [n]  the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level"
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	Synonyms:		motivating, motive, need
	See Also:		act, condition, ethical motive, ethics, human action, human activity, impulse, irrational motive, life, mental energy, morality, morals, psychic energy, psychological feature, rational motive, status, urge
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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