| NOUN | motive | ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality | motivation based on ideas of right and wrong |
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| Meaning | motivation based on ideas of right and wrong. | |
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| Synonyms | ethics, morals, morality | |
| Narrower | Inner Light, Light, Light Within, Christ Within | A divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul |
| conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong | motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions | |
| hedonism | The pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle | |
| Broader | motivation, motive, need | The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal |
| Spanish | ética, moralidad, moral | |
| Catalan | ètica, moralitat, moral | |
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