Does Motive Mean Reason?

Your reason for doing something is your motive. Your motive to go to school every day is to learn. Or maybe the thought of your parents' anger and a run-in with the truant officer is motive enough. The word motive comes from the Latin words motivus, meaning moving, and movere, meaning to move.

Are motive and reason the same thing?

As nouns the difference between motive and reason

is that motive is an incentive to act; a reason for doing something; anything that prompted a choice of action while reason is a cause:.

Is motive a synonym for reason?

In this page you can discover 55 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for motive, like: reason, purpose, incentive, cause, inducement, incitement, occasion, goal, motivation, stimulus and rationale.