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What does ambivalence mean?

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Noun
  1. The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
  2. A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
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The ambivalence from the clash of voices results in mental and emotional states of perplexity.
The ambivalence stems from Wittgenstein's admiration of Freud combined with his staunch condemnation of psychoanalytic theory.
Despite her ambivalence about the upcoming birth, she and her dad excitedly brainstorm a million things the siblings will be able to do together.
Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film.
As I was growing up in Northern Ireland, I could sense the ambivalence about Unionism in a sizeable proportion of mainland Britons.
Epitomizing Sokurov's ambivalence, the narrator scoffs at the film's climactic ballroom dance yet expresses regret at having to leave.

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