| 单词 | irrational motive |
| 释义 | irrational motive (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY irrational motive: irrational motives USAGE EXAMPLESIn reconciling our rational and irrational motives for belief, we have become good at kidding ourselves. Scientific American(May 05, 2011) Reforms are carried by Time, and what generally prevails in the end, are not logical deductions, but some haphazard and frequently irrational motives. Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), Chips From A German Workshop, Vol....(2010) As we have seen, the choice of a mate is determined by irrational motives which lie far below the levels of consciousness. Knight, Melvin Moses, Taboo and Genetics—A Study of the...(2010) n a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic Hypo|Hyper irrational impulse a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation cacoethes, mania, passionan irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action compulsion, obsessionan irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will compulsion, irresistible impulsean urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid agromaniaan intense desire to be alone or out in the open alcoholism, dipsomania, potomaniaan intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomaniaan intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomaniaan irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrheapathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possessiona mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilisman irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromaniaan irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromaniaan uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomaniaan irresistible urge to pull out your own hair onomatomaniaobsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness motivation, 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 |
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