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incitement - 18 thesaurus results
Main Entry: incitement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: motive
Synonyms: incentive, instigation, provocation, stimulus, incitation
Main Entry: awakening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: making conscious or alert
Synonyms: birth, incitement, kindling, provocation, rebirth, renewal, revival, rousing, stimulation, waking, activation, animating, arousal, awaking, enlivening, stirring up, vivication, waking up
Antonyms: sleep, sleeping
Main Entry: catalyst
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something which incites activity
Synonyms: agitator, goad, impetus, impulse, incendiary, incentive, incitement, motivation, reactionary, spark plug, spur, stimulant, adjuvant, enzyme, incitation, radical stimulus, reactant, synergist, wave maker
Antonyms: block, prevention, blockage, preventer
Main Entry: encouragement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help, support
Synonyms: advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, easement, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, optimism, promotion, refreshment, relief, reward, softening, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging, consoling, enlivening, inspiritment, invigoration, reassurance, reassuring, relieving, shot in the arm, solacing
Antonyms: denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement
Main Entry: exhortation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: warning, urging
Synonyms: admonition, advice, bidding, caution, counsel, encouragement, entreaty, incitement, instigation, lecture, persuasion, preaching, sermon, beseeching, enjoinder, goading
Main Entry: fuel
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something providing energy
Synonyms: ammunition, combustible, electricity, encouragement, food, gas, incitement, juice, material, means, nourishment, provocation, propellant
Main Entry: goad
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stimulus
Synonyms: catalyst, compulsion, desire, drive, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, irritation, lash, lust, motivation, passion, pressure, prod, spur, urge, whip, zeal, impulsion, incitation
Antonyms: deterrent, discouragement, diversion, restraint
Main Entry: impetus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stimulus, force
Synonyms: catalyst, energy, goad, impulse, incentive, incitement, momentum, motivation, power, pressure, push, spur, stimulant, urge, impulsion, incitation
Antonyms: block, check, hindrance
Main Entry: incentive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lure, inducement
Synonyms: bait, catalyst, come-on*, consideration, drive, encouragement, enticement, excuse, exhortation, goad, ground, impetus, impulse, incitement, influence, insistence, inspiration, instigation, motivation, motive, persuasion, provocation, purpose, rationale, reason, spring, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulus, temptation, urge, whip, allurement, carrot*, determinant, reason why
Notes: the temporal orientation of incentive is toward the future; that of inducement is toward the past
Antonyms: block, hindrance, turn-off
Main Entry: inducement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: incentive, motive
Synonyms: attraction, bait, brainwash*, cause, come-on*, con*, consideration, desire, encouragement, hard sell, hook*, impulse, incitement, influence, leader, lure, reward, snow job*, soft soap*, spur, stimulus, sweet talk*, temptation, twist, urge, carrot*
Antonyms: discouragement, hindrance, prevention, disincentive
Main Entry: invitation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: proposal; asking
Synonyms: appeal, attraction, begging, bid, bidding, call, challenge, date, encouragement, enticement, feeler*, ground, hit, incitement, inducement, invite, lure, motive, offer, open door*, overture, paper, pass, petition, pressure, proffer, proposition, provocation, rain check, reason, request, suggestion, summons, supplication, temptation, urge, allurement, compliments, coquetry, prompting, solicitation
Main Entry: motivation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ambition, inspiration
Synonyms: action, angle, catalyst, desire, disposition, drive, encouragement, fire, gimmick, hunger, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, inclination, inducement, instigation, interest, kick*, motive, persuasion, predisposition, provocation, push, reason, right stuff*, spur, stimulus, suggestion, wish, actuation, get up and go, goose*, impulsion, incitation, predetermination
Antonyms: depression, discouragement
Main Entry: motive
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reason, purpose
Synonyms: aim, antecedent, basis, cause, consideration, design, drive, emotion, end, feeling, grounds, idea, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, influence, inspiration, intent, intention, motivation, object, occasion, passion, rationale, root, spring, spur, stimulus, thinking, determinant, mainspring
Antonyms: deterrent, discouragement, hindrance
Main Entry: stimulant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: substance that invigorates
Synonyms: catalyst, drug, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, motivation, motive, pick-me-up*, restorative, spark plug, spur, stimulus, tonic, upper, analeptic, bracer, energizer, excitant, incitation, reviver, shot in the arm
Antonyms: depressant
Main Entry: stimulus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: provocation
Synonyms: bang*, boost, catalyst, cause, charge, encouragement, fillip, fireworks*, flash*, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, instigation, invitation, kick*, motivation, motive, push, spur, stimulant, stimulation, sting*, urging, eye-opener, incitation, piquing, propellant, shot in the arm, turn-on
Antonyms: discouragement, hindrance, tranquilizer
Main Entry: instigation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prompting
Synonyms: encouragement, incentive, incitement, influence, stimulation, urging, abetment
Main Entry: impulse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drive, resolve
Synonyms: appeal, bent, caprice, catalyst, desire, disposition, fancy, feeling, flash*, goad, hunch, incitement, inclination, influence, inspiration, instinct, itch*, lash, lust, mind, motivation, motive, notion, passion, spontaneity, spur, thought, urge, vagary, whim, whimsy, wish, yen, actuation, excitant, extemporization, impellent, impulsion, incitation
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