ambivalence

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

ambivalencia

indecisión

Sinónimos

ambivalency

dither

hesitation

indecision

irresolution

uncertainty

Traducciones

Ambivalenz

ambivalence

ambivalência

ambivalenza

ambivalentie

Doppelwertigkeit

ambivalència

αμφιθυμία

Zwiespältigkeit

çelişik duyguları olma

تضاد

تناقُض

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/æmˈbɪvələns/

Etimología (Inglés)

Borrowed from German Ambivalenz (“simultaneous conflicting feelings”), from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from the verb valere (“to be strong”) (see valiant); spelled on the model of French-origin words ending in -ence. The German term was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1910; by 1929, it had taken on a broader literary and general sense. Equivalent to ambi- + valence.