What Is the Word Ambitendency Meaning?

Medical Definition of ambitendency
: a tendency to act in opposite ways or directions : the presence of opposing behavioral drives.

What does it mean when someone is ambivalent?

: having or showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward something or someone : characterized by ambivalence … people whose relationship to their job is ambivalent, conflicted.— Terrence Rafferty Americans are deeply ambivalent about the country's foreign role.

Is ambivalent a positive or negative word?

What does ambivalent mean? To be ambivalent (adjective) about something means that one has “mixed or confusing feelings” about it. Being truly ambivalent is neither a negative nor positive feeling; a person who is experiencing ambivalence is likely to be utterly neutral.

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