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English
Etymology
From French motivation.
Morphologically motivate + -ion
Pronunciation
Noun
motivation (plural motivations)
- Willingness of action especially in behavior.
- The action of motivating.
- Something which motivates.
- An incentive or reason for doing something.
- (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
- The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.
Derived terms
Translations
willingness of action especially in behavior
- Afrikaans: motivering
- Albanian: motivacion (sq) m
- Arabic: دَافِع (ar) m (dāfiʕ)
- Armenian: շահագրգռություն (hy) (šahagrgṙutʻyun), մոտիվացիա (hy) (motivacʻia)
- Azerbaijani: motivasiya
- Belarusian: матыва́цыя f (matyvácyja)
- Bulgarian: мотива́ция (bg) f (motivácija)
- Catalan: motivació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 動機/动机 (zh) (dòngjī), 推動力/推动力 (zh) (tuīdònglì)
- Corsican: mutivazione f, motivazione f, mutivazioni f
- Czech: motivace (cs) f
- Dutch: motivatie (nl) f
- Estonian: motivatsioon
- Finnish: motivaatio (fi)
- French: motivation (fr) f
- Georgian: მოტივაცია (moṭivacia)
- German: Motivation (de) f, Motivierung (de) f
- Greek: προθυμία (el) f (prothymía)
- Hebrew: מוֹטִיבַצְיָה f (motivátsya)
- Hindi: अभिप्रेरण m (abhipreraṇ)
- Indonesian: motivasi (id)
- Irish: spreagadh m, inspreagadh m
- Italian: motivazione (it) f
- Japanese: 動機 (ja) (どうき, dōki), モチベーション (ja) (mochibēshon)
- Kazakh: мотивация (motivasiä)
- Korean: 동기(動機) (ko) (donggi)
- Latvian: motivācija f
- Lithuanian: motyvacija f
- Macedonian: мотивација f (motivacija)
- Malay: motivasi
- Marathi: स्फूर्ती f (sphūrtī)
- Norman: motivâtion f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motivasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk: motivasjon m
- Occitan: motivacion (oc) f
- Persian: انگیزه (fa) (angize), برانگیزش (fa) (barângizeš), انگیزش (fa) (angizeš)
- Polish: motywacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: motivação (pt) f
- Romanian: motivație (ro) f
- Russian: мотива́ция (ru) f (motivácija)
- Sardinian: motivatzione f, motivatzioni f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: мотива́ција f
- Roman: motivácija (sh) f
- Sicilian: mutivazzioni f
- Slovak: motivácia f
- Slovene: motivacija f
- Spanish: motivación (es) f
- Swedish: motivation (sv) c
- Tagalog: kagnyakan, saganyak
- Tajik: ангезиш (angeziš)
- Thai: แรงจูงใจ (th) (rɛɛng-juung-jai)
- Turkish: güdü (tr), motivasyon (tr)
- Ukrainian: мотива́ція f (motyvácija)
- Uzbek: motivatsiya (uz)
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something which motivates
reason for doing something
research rating that measures how a commercial affects consumer intention
References
- (advertising, research rating that measures how a commercial affect consumer intention): The Advertising Research Handbook Charles E. Young, Ideas in Flight, Seattle, WA, April 2005
Danish
Etymology
From French motivation.
Pronunciation
Noun
motivation c (singular definite motivationen, plural indefinite motivationer)
- motivation
- incentive
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French
Etymology
From motiver + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
motivation f (plural motivations)
- motivation
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Swedish
Etymology
From French motivation.
Noun
motivation c
- motivation (drive, something that motivates, etc.)
Declension
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