ambivalence
noun
uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
ambivalency
-
a variation of
ambivalence.
Example Sentences
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War is an example of ambivalency on the grandest scale.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
