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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ambivalent /amˈbɪv(ə)l(ə)nt/

▶adjective having mixed feelings or opinions about something or someone.

– derivatives
ambivalence noun,
ambivalently adverb.

– origin early 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from Ger. Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.

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