Ambivalent means "having mixed feelings about something." A Swiss psychologist named Eugen Bleuler coined the German word Ambivalenz in the early twentieth century, and it was soon imported into English.

What is the origin of ambivalent?

Their shared prefix, ambi-, means "both." The -valent in ambivalent comes from the Late Latin valentia ("power") and, in combination with ambi-, suggests the pull of two different emotions. ...

Who invented the word ambivalent?

Originally coined by Swiss psychologist Paul Eugen Bleuler in 1910, “ambivalence” as a psychological term means much the same thing as it means in general speech—a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings.