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Ambivalent vs Apathetic - What's the difference?

ambivalent | apathetic |

As adjectives the difference between ambivalent and apathetic

is that ambivalent is simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations while apathetic is void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

ambivalent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Simultaneously]] experiencing or expressing [[oppose, opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations.
  • Alternately having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.

    • Synonyms

    * (simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings) conflicted, uncertain, undecided, unresolved * (alternately feeling opposing feelings) vacillating, fluctuating, wavering

    Related terms

    () * ambiguous * ambivalence * ambivalently * equivalent

    apathetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apathetical

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
  • Of, or pertaining to apatheism.

    • Synonyms

    * indifferent. impassive

    Related terms

    * apatheism * apatheist

    References

    * English terms with alpha privatives