ambivalence

ambivalent | American Dictionary

ambivalent
adjective
us/æmˈbɪv·ə·lənt/
having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel:
My wife loves the opera, but I have ambivalent feelings about it.

ambivalence

noun[ U ]us/æmˈbɪv·ə·ləns/

Examples of ambivalent

ambivalent
The relationship between magnetiser and subject remained therefore ambivalent: how could it be proved that the subject was not really duping the magnetiser?
There has been an ambivalent attitude to the biological characteristics of racial hybrids apparent ever since the problem first arose.
Additionally, the respondents expressed intense and ambivalent feelings and emotions about their personal experience of homelessness and often felt broken without hope.
Marxism and nationalism were closely intertwined both by their contingent, ambivalent alliances and by their contingent conceptual affinities in many areas.
The very limited amount of scholarly empirical work on this topic has produced ambivalent results.
Yet the government's attitude toward the paramilitaries was ambivalent.
But there were also numerous dissenting voices and the general attitude remained, all in all, ambivalent.
She is an ambivalent figure because she is not the subject of power but its carrier (the connotations of disease are appropriate here).
Again, the response was ambivalent, valuing regionalism on some terms but falling short in recognizing realistic paths toward that goal.
When we do, we encounter, not two straightforward discoveries to be "read off" from these accounts, but two ambivalent messages to be puzzled over.
This condition was satisfied for the ambivalent attachment style, selfperception, and peers' report of positive adjustment.
Artists themselves, however, were ambivalent about privileging ' high' art, and especially so when making and writing about music.
As the report acknowledges, employers tend to be pre-occupied with short-term economic survival and are often ambivalent towards older workers.
Critics and directors alike are having to come to terms with a very ambivalent world.
Part of the evidence for this alienation can be seen in the ambivalent attitude towards the label 'fundamentalist ' itself.
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