ambivalence

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea. countable,uncountable
    — "I dearly loved my master, son," she said. "You should have hated him," I said. "He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too." "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said.
  2. A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness. countable,uncountable

词形变化

ambivalences plural

词汇关系

衍生词
unambivalence
相关词
ambivalent

词源

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.
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