ambivalence \ambivalence\, ambivalency \ambivalency\n.
1. mixed feelings or emotions; uncertainty or vacillation in
making a choice.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. (Psychol.) the simultaneous existence within a person of
both positive and negative feelings toward another person
or action, or toward an object (as of attraction and
revulsion), resulting in internal conflict.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ambivalence
n : mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalency]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambivalence":
Janus, ambiguity, ambitendency, ambivalence of impulse, antinomy,
asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, capriciousness, change of mind,
changeableness, conflict, conjugation, decompensation, dichotomy,
disproportion, disproportionateness, double-mindedness, doubleness,
doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, dubiety, dubiousness,
duplexity, duplication, duplicity, emotional shock, equivocality,
equivocation, external frustration, fence-sitting,
fence-straddling, fickleness, frustration, halving, heresy,
heterodoxy, heterogeneity, incoherence, incommensurability,
incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance,
inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, infirmity of purpose,
instability, irony, irreconcilability, irresolution, mental shock,
mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, nonconformability,
nonconformity, oxymoron, pairing, paradox, polarity,
psychological stress, second thoughts, self-contradiction, stress,
tergiversation, trauma, traumatism, twinning, two-facedness,
twoness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformity,
undecidedness, undeterminedness, unorthodoxy, unsettledness,
unsettlement
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ambivalency
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