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English

Etymology

, from the verb {{term|moveo|moveō|(I) move}}, +

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. Willingness of action esp. in behavior
  2. The action of motivate|motivating.
  3. Something which motivates.
  4. A reason for doing something.
  5. In the Context of a research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
  6. :The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.


Derived terms


Translations

References

  • The Advertising Research Handbook Charles E. Young, Ideas in Flight, Seattle, WA, April 2005


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French

Etymology

Noun

motivation

  1. #English|motivation


Category:French nouns

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Swedish

Noun

motivation

  1. #English|motivation; willingness of action


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Motivate \Mo"ti*vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -vated; p. pr. &
vb. n. -vating.] [From Motive, n.]
To provide with a motive; to move; impel; induce; incite. --
Mo`ti*va"tion, n. --William James.

Syn: move, prompt, incite, induce impel, drive.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English motivation \motivation\ n.
1. The act or process of motivating.
[PJC]

2. 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.

Syn: motive, need.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

3. 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.
[PJC]
WordNet motivation
n 1: 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" [syn: motive, need]
2: the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a
high level"
3: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivating]
Moby Dictionary
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


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