Ambivalent

Etymology
From ambivalence: from Ambivalenz: from  ambi-: + valeo:

Adjective

 * 1) Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
 * 2) Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

Synonyms

 * conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved
 * vacillating, fluctuating, wavering

Related terms

 * ambiguous
 * ambivalence


 * ambivalently
 * equivalent

Thesaurus
amalgamated; ambiguous; ambitendent; amphibious; antinomic; at loose ends; blended; capricious; changeable; combined; complex; composite; compound; compounded; conflict; conglomerate; contrasting; dappled; double-minded; dubious; eclectic; equivocal; fence-sitting; fence-straddling; fickle; fifty-fifty; fluctuate; half-and-half; heterogeneous; indecisive; indiscriminate; infirm of purpose; intricate; ironic; irresolute; irresolved; jumbled; many-sided; medley; mercurial; mingled; miscellaneous; mixed; motley; mugwumpian; mugwumpish; multifaceted; multinational; multiracial; mutable; of two minds; oxymoronic; paradoxical; patchy; pluralistic; promiscuous; scrambled; self-contradictory; syncretic; thrown together; uncertain; undecided; undetermined; unresolved; unsettled; varied

Translations

 * Bulgarian: двойствен, противоречив
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ambivalentní, rozporuplný
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ristiriitainen
 * French:
 * German: ambivalent, doppelwertig, zwiespältig
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ambivalen, ragu, bimbang, ragu-ragu


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: どっちつかず docchi-tsukazu
 * Korean: 반대감정이 공존하는
 * Newspeak: doublethink
 * Polish: ambiwalentny
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: двойственный,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Adjective

 * 1) ambivalent
 * 2) * 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 13–14:
 * Wir wissen auch aus der Geheimgeschichte des Individuums, welche die Analyse aufdeckt, daß das Verhältnis zu diesem Vater vielleicht vom Anfang an ein ambivalentes war, jedenfalls bald so wurde, d. h. es umfaßte zwei einander entgegengesetzte Gefühlsregungen, nicht nur eine zärtlich unterwürfige, sondern auch eine feindselig trotzige.
 * We also know from the secret story of the individual, which the analysis uncovers, that the relationship to this father was maybe from the beginning an ambivalent one, in any case became soon like this, that is it was comprised of two emotions contradictory to each other, not only a affectionate submissive one, but also a hostile defiant one.