Psychoanalysis and Psychology. The coexistence in one person of profoundly opposing emotions, beliefs, attitudes, or urges (such as love and…

an emotional state in which both hate and love are experienced towards a particular person or thing; now chiefly attributive, designating a…

(a) a contrastive state of both love and hate existing towards the same object (rare); (b) attributive designating or involving a relationship…

an ambivalent feeling (for a person, etc.) consisting both of love and hatred.