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      • 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?
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  2. having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel: I felt very ambivalent about leaving home. He has fairly ambivalent feelings towards his father. an ambivalent attitude to exercise. Synonyms. ambiguous. equivocal formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Doubt & ambivalence. ambivalence. ambivalently.

  3. The meaning of AMBIVALENT is having or showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward something or someone : characterized by ambivalence. How to use ambivalent in a sentence. Did you know?

  4. Ambivalent definition: having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action. See examples of AMBIVALENT used in a sentence.

  5. If you can't decide how you feel about something, declare yourself ambivalent about it. Ambivalent means "having mixed feelings about something." A Swiss psychologist named Eugen Bleuler coined the German word Ambivalenz in the early twentieth century, and it was soon imported into English.

  6. having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel: I felt very ambivalent about leaving home. He has fairly ambivalent feelings toward his father. an ambivalent attitude to exercise. Synonyms. ambiguous. equivocal formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Doubt & ambivalence. ambivalence. ambivalently.

  7. ambivalent (about/towards somebody/something) having or showing both positive and negative feelings about somebody/something. She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job. He has an ambivalent attitude towards her. Extra Examples.

  8. If you say that someone is ambivalent about something, they seem to be uncertain whether they really want it, or whether they really approve of it. …an ambivalent attitude towards authority figures.

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