Can a Person Be Ambivalent?

Ambivalent: More than One Feeling
If you are ambivalent about something, your feelings about it are contradictory or mixed: you feel two (or more) ways about it. The word typically describes a person or a person's attitude: I'm ambivalent about going to the show. On the one hand, it would be fun.

What makes someone ambivalent?

Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. The term also refers to situations where "mixed feelings" of a more general sort are experienced, or where a person experiences uncertainty or indecisiveness. ...

Can you be ambivalent?

Someone in an ambivalent state of mind is experiencing an excess of opinion, not an absence of it. An ambivalent person may feel very strongly about the subject at hand without reaching anything like a coherent point of view on it. Actually, all of us are Ambivalents at different moments.

David Miller

David Miller

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David Miller brings 15 years of experience in global economics, personal finance strategy, and market dynamics. He specializes in turning complex economic trends into actionable insights for everyday readers.