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motive

English

  1. 🔊 the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal
    “we did not understand his motivation”
  2. 🔊 a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
  3. 🔊 a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

Spanish

  1. 🔊 móvil motive

Similar words

motivation need motif motif activating active actuating aim ambition angle animating animus antecedent argument aspiration attraction basis burden case causal causative cause chapter compelling