Hyphenation of motivation

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word motivation? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

mo-ti-va-tion

Definitions of motivation:

1.	The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal The reason for the action That which gives purpose and direction to behavior We did not understand his motivation He acted with the best of motives
2.	The condition of being motivated His motivation was at a high level
3.	The act of motivating Providing incentive

Synonyms of motivation:

noun	motive, need, psychological feature
noun	condition, status
noun	motivating, act, human action, human activity

Last hyphenations of this language

shaly culches wet-lipped Bucconinae fratchety well-paid Chin unstatutory turrigerous elevate Kuki-Chin competitive anlage laissez-faire Maki boydom capitalist praiseless private-enterprise

Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.