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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Janus, ambiguity, ambitendency, ambivalence of impulse, antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, capriciousness, change of mind, changeableness, conflict, conjugation, decompensation, dichotomy, disproportion, disproportionateness, double-mindedness, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, dubiety, dubiousness, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, emotional shock, equivocality, equivocation, external frustration, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, frustration, halving, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, infirmity of purpose, instability, irony, irreconcilability, irresolution, mental shock, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, nonconformability, nonconformity, oxymoron, pairing, paradox, polarity, psychological stress, second thoughts, self-contradiction, stress, tergiversation, trauma, traumatism, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, uncertainty, unconformability, unconformity, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unorthodoxy, unsettledness, unsettlement

Dictionary Results for ambivalence:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

ambivalence
    n 1: mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalence,
         ambivalency]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ambivalence \ambivalence\, ambivalency \ambivalency\n.
   1. mixed feelings or emotions; uncertainty or vacillation in
      making a choice.
      [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

   2. (Psychol.) the simultaneous existence within a person of
      both positive and negative feelings toward another person
      or action, or toward an object (as of attraction and
      revulsion), resulting in internal conflict.
      [PJC]

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