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/am'bi ten"deuhn see/, n., pl. ambitendencies. Psychol.ambivalence, esp. when acted out; a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses.[AMBI- + TENDENCY]
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ambitendency
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ambivalence — Synonyms and related words: Janus, ambiguity, ambitendency, ambivalence of impulse, antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, capriciousness, change of mind, changeableness, conflict, conjugation, decompensation, dichotomy, disproportion,… … Moby Thesaurus
change of mind — Synonyms and related words: about face, afterthoughts, ambitendency, ambivalence, amendment, better thoughts, capriciousness, change of allegiance, change of heart, changeableness, double mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, fence sitting, fence… … Moby Thesaurus
inconstancy — Synonyms and related words: Punic faith, ambitendency, ambivalence, arrhythmia, bad faith, barratry, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, brokenness, capriciousness, change of mind, changeability, changeableness, choppiness,… … Moby Thesaurus
indecision — Synonyms and related words: ambitendency, ambivalence, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, double mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, erraticism, erraticness, fence sitting, fence straddling, fickleness, fluctuation … Moby Thesaurus
indecisiveness — Synonyms and related words: ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability, brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness … Moby Thesaurus
