antimotivation

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ motivation.

Noun

antimotivation (uncountable)

1. Active rejection of something towards which one should be motivated.
   • 1973, John R. Fry, Locked-out Americans: a memoir:

     Having been driven all their days into an active antimotivation, and finding motivation is the absolute prerequisite for beginning real American life, they cannot begin […]

   • 1977, Louise M. Berman, Jessie A. Roderick, Feeling, valuing, and the art of growing: insights into the affective:

     With this, undermotivation turns to antimotivation; failures accumulate and their emotional threshold goes down. Instead of trying harder they start to rebel.

   • 1983, International yearbook of cartography: Volume 23:

     Thus, no motivation is generated in the student to apply the new skills; on the contrary, antimotivation is sometimes aroused.