Antonyms for ambivalence
æmˈbɪv ə lənsam·biva·lence

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1. ambivalence, ambivalencynoun

   mixed feelings or emotions

   Synonyms:
   ambivalency

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1. ambivalence

   Synonyms:
   Psychiatry Manic-depressive psychosis bipolar disorder Suicidology Suicidal ambivalence

How to use ambivalence in a sentence?

1. Andrew Schneider:

   Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

2. David Seabury:

   Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.

3. Dante Scala:

   Now that we're in this age of ISIS and so forth, Republicans have lost their ambivalence toward interventionism, it can be difficult for candidates to make news anyway during these summer months, and with Trump there, it makes matters worse. In some ways maybe it's unfair to judge him to see what happens in the fall. But that overarching problem is something he has yet to solve.

4. Fredric Wehrey:

   It did stir a lot of ambivalence and even outright criticism from people who say, 'Well you know, ISIS is bad but at least ISIS is standing up to the Shiites and the Iranian menace,' now this war on the Houthis is a godsend to them because they are able to stir up this new Saudi nationalism, this pan-Sunni fervor, and it's to show they are defending the Sunnis... for domestic benefit.

5. Sam Kamin:

   You have this odd combination here for ambivalence on the part of prosecutors and juries and a statute that permits the imposition of death in most murders, in some cases it was lack of resources, in some cases it was the belief that a jury wouldn't impose it.

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