ambivalence

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(noun.)

VERB + AMBIVALENCE

feel

express, show

She showed some ambivalence about accepting the job offer because of the long commute.

PREP

with ~

He felt torn about the job offer, approaching it with ambivalence even though it paid well.

~ about

Many people feel ambivalence about whether to buy expensive organic food or cheaper regular products.

~ over

She felt some ambivalence over whether to accept the job offer in another country.

~ towards

Many people experience ambivalence towards social media because it has both positive and negative effects.

Definitions

noun

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The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.

"I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too." "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said.

The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”

2

A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.

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Synonyms

noun — mixed feelings or emotions

ambivalency

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Idioms & Phrases

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"I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too.

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The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, whic

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Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.

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