different between motivation vs supporting

English

Etymology

From French motivation.Morphologically motivate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

motivation (plural motivations)

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. (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

• intrinsic motivation
• extrinsic motivation

Translations

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

• IPA^(key): /motivasjo?n/, [mot?iva??o??n]

Noun

motivation c (singular definite motivationen, plural indefinite motivationer)

1. motivation
2. incentive

Inflection

Synonyms

• motivering

Related terms

• motiv
• motivere
• motiveret

Further reading

• motivation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

motiver +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.ti.va.sj??/

Noun

motivation f (plural motivations)

1. motivation

Derived terms

• lettre de motivation

Further reading

• “motivation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From French motivation.

Noun

motivation c

1. motivation; willingness of action

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??p??t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p??t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po(?)?t??/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /s??po?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??
• Hyphenation: sup?port?ing

Adjective

supporting (comparative more supporting, superlative most supporting)

1. That supports.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

supporting

1. present participle of support

Noun

supporting (plural supportings)

1. That which supports something else; a support.
   • 1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese (page 252)

     But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]

   • 1913, Proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute

     […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.