Ambivalence

Noun

 * 1) The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
 * 2) A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.

Related terms

 * ambivalent

Thesaurus
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