Ambivalence vs Obligation - What's the difference?
ambivalence | obligation |
The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
(legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
As nouns the difference between ambivalence and obligation
is that ambivalence is the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea while obligation is the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.ambivalence
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Usage notes
This word is often used as to express a lack of concern about the outcome of a choice to be made [http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-10,GGLJ:en&q=ambivalent+to+mean+indifferent]. In this case, a more appropriate word to use is indifference. The confusion is probably caused by the similarity of sounds between the two words and the passive sound of the word.obligation
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(wikipedia obligation)Noun
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- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation , which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.