ambivalence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ambivalence
    n 1: mixed feelings or emotions [syn: {ambivalence},
         {ambivalency}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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