IRRATIONAL MOTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irrational motive mean? 

• IRRATIONAL MOTIVE (noun)
  The noun IRRATIONAL MOTIVE has 1 sense:

1. a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic

  Familiarity information: IRRATIONAL MOTIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRATIONAL MOTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Hypernyms ("irrational motive" is a kind of...):

motivation; motive; need (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "irrational motive"):

irrational impulse (a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation)

cacoethes; mania; passion (an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action)

compulsion; obsession (an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will)