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单词 ambivalence
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ambivalence
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n

Someone who shows ambivalence about a person or thing has conflicting feelings. If you love your mom but find her totally embarrassing, you might feel ambivalent about having her give a presentation at your school.
Originally a psychological term, ambivalence was borrowed from the German word Ambivalenz, coined in 1910 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler. The German word was formed from the Latin prefix ambi- "in two ways" plus Latin valentia "vigor, strength."
WORD FAMILY
ambivalence: ambivalences+/ambivalent: ambivalence, ambivalency, ambivalently
USAGE EXAMPLES
Some worry that the government’s obvious ambivalence is imperilling the entire reconciliation process.
The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016)
These artists may regard the divine with a measure of ambivalence, but they rarely speak from a place of neutrality.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016)
Here he was, caught in a middle ground of ambivalence.
New York Times(Dec 22, 2016)
n mixed feelings or emotions
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
ambivalency
conflict
opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
feeling
the experiencing of affective and emotional states
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