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Ambivalence

//æmˈbɪvələns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea. countable, uncountable

    ""I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too." "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said."

  2. 2
    mixed feelings or emotions wordnet
  3. 3
    A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ambivalenz (“simultaneous conflicting feelings”), from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from the verb valere (“to be strong”) (see valiant); spelled on the model of French-origin words ending in -ence. The German term was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1910; by 1929, it had taken on a broader literary and general sense. Equivalent to ambi- + valence.

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