LekhoriLekhoriSimultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
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