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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

... scientists now working directly on space feeding and nutrition is working effectively at a rate only attained by high motivation. But this motivation suffices and their efforts will ultimately provide at least a partially closed space feeding system by the time it is critically needed and, eventually, an ideal one for long voyages of man into the remoter ...

— The Practical Values of Space Exploration • Committee on Science and Astronautics

... theoretical side, should have its full share of prizes and scholarships to stimulate the seventy to seventy-five per cent of students who are now unaffected by the influence of athletics. By these methods the motivation of gymnastics, which now in large measure goes to waste in enthusiasm, could be utilised to aid the greatly needed intellectualization of those exercises which in their nature are more akin to work than play. Indeed, ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

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