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語源

Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- +‎ -valent. Compare ambivert.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/

形容詞

ambivalent (comparative more ambivalent, superlative most ambivalent)

1. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77:

     In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.

   • 2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 30 January 2020:

     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.”

2. Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

   His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.

使用する際の注意点

Ambivalent may be loosely used to denote lacking emotions rather than having conflicting emotions. More appropriate alternatives for a lack of emotion would be indifferent and apathetic.

同意語

• (simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings): conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved
• (alternately feeling opposing feelings): vacillating, fluctuating, wavering

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