Ambivalence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ambivalence
       n : mixed feelings or emotions [syn: {ambivalency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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