ambivalent
Pronunciation: /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/
The English word “ambivalent” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
- Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Etymology
Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
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