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/æmˈbɪvələns/ · noun
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea..
"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.
The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
Use ambivalence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ambivalence means The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea..
Common synonyms include ambivalency.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"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.
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