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by camdenreslink
778 days ago
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Another word that is often used incorrectly. "Ambivalent" doesn't mean "unruffled" or "unbothered". It actually means to have two (possibly strong) contradictory emotions. It's more like "bittersweet" or to be "of two minds". |
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In a metaphorical physical sense where an object is immobilized by two opposing forces.
But it's direct. It's "both valences" ("valence is loosely like " value"), like in chemistry. "Ambi", which implies that there are only two possibilities, instead of "bi" which merely means 2 actual among many possible.