motivation

Meaning

1. Willingness of action especially in behavior.
2. The action of motivating.
3. Something which motivates.
4. An incentive or reason for doing something.
5. A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

Etymology

From French motivation.
Morphologically motivate + -ion

Sentences

The paradox was also a motivation of the development of predicative mathematics .