'ambivalence' definitions:
Definition of 'ambivalence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalence, ambivalency]
Synonyms of 'ambivalence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Janus,
- 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