Usually means: Simultaneously feeling affection and animosity.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. love-hate: Merriam-Webster
  2. love-hate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Love-Hate, love-hate: Wordnik
  4. love-hate: Wiktionary
  5. love-hate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. love-hate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. love-hate: Dictionary.com
  8. love-hate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Love-hate: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (love-hate)

adjective:  (originally psychoanalysis) Of a relationship: involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously.
verb:  (transitive) To feel both love and hate (for someone or something), often simultaneously.

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