GRE Word List
AMBIVALENCE
simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
The meaning of the word ambivalence is simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action.
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