ambivalent.
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
Meaning & usage
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
Where this word comes from
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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