#irrational_motive a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
supertype: motivation__motive__need the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
subtype: irrational_impulse a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"
subtype: irresistible_impulse__compulsion an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
subtype: mania__passion__cacoethe an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
subtype: agromania an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
subtype: dipsomania__alcoholism__potomania an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
subtype: egomania an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
subtype: kleptomania an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
subtype: logorrhea__logomania pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
subtype: monomania__possession a mania restricted to one thing or idea
subtype: necrophilia__necromania an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
subtype: phaneromania an irresistible desire to pick a superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
subtype: pyromania an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
subtype: trichotillomania an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
subtype: compulsion.irrational_motive__obsession an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
subtype: onomatomania obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
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