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Incentive vs Overjustification - What's the difference?

incentive | overjustification |

As a verb incentive

is .

As a noun overjustification is

excessive justification.

incentive

English

(wikipedia incentive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.

    • Antonyms

    * disincentive

    Derived terms

    * incentivise/incentivize, tax incentive

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • Competency is the most incentive to industry.
  • Serving to kindle or set on fire.
  • * Milton
    • Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.

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    overjustification

    English

    Noun

  • Excessive justification.
  • (psychology) Specifically , external incentives for an already-internally-motivated behavior, which risk the loss of the original motivation.