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Ambivalent

//æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.

    "In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres."

  2. 2
    Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

    "His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent."

Adjective
  1. 1
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow wordnet

Etymology

Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.

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