ambivalence
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
The simultaneous existence of contradictory feelings or attitudes towards the same object or situation.
Her deep ambivalence about recovery surfaced whenever discharge was raised, as she both craved and dreaded independence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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