antimotivation

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ motivation.

Noun

antimotivation (uncountable)

  1. Active rejection of something towards which one should be motivated.
    • 1973, John R. Fry, Locked-out Americans: a memoir:
      Having been driven all their days into an active antimotivation, and finding motivation is the absolute prerequisite for beginning real American life, they cannot begin
    • 1977, Louise M. Berman, Jessie A. Roderick, Feeling, valuing, and the art of growing: insights into the affective:
      With this, undermotivation turns to antimotivation; failures accumulate and their emotional threshold goes down. Instead of trying harder they start to rebel.
    • 1983, International yearbook of cartography: Volume 23:
      Thus, no motivation is generated in the student to apply the new skills; on the contrary, antimotivation is sometimes aroused.