ambivalent
Meaning
Adjective
- Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
- Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
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Origin
- , from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- ("in two ways") + valeĊ; equivalent to ambi- + -valent.
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