Usually means: Simultaneous conflicting feelings or thoughts.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambivalence: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambivalence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambivalence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambivalence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambivalence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambivalence, ambivalence: Wordnik
  7. ambivalence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambivalence: Wiktionary
  9. ambivalence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambivalence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambivalence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ambivalence: Dictionary.com
  13. ambivalence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ambivalence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. AMBIVALENCE, Ambivalence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. ambivalence: Rhymezone
  17. ambivalence, ambivalence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ambivalence: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ambivalence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ambivalence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. ambivalence: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambivalence: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. ambivalence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambivalence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambivalence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. AMBIVALENCE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  6. ambivalence: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambivalence: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ambivalences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
noun:  A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.

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