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/æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/ · adjective
Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings..
In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
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.”
His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
Use ambivalent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ambivalent means Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings..
Common synonyms include conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
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