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AMBIVALENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ambivalency mean?
• AMBIVALENCY (noun)
The noun AMBIVALENCY has 1 sense:
1. mixed feelings or emotions
Familiarity information: AMBIVALENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mixed feelings or emotions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
ambivalence; ambivalency
Hypernyms ("ambivalency" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambivalency"):
conflict (opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings)
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