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11 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun mixed feelings or emotions
originBorrowed from German Ambivalenz (“simultaneous conflicting feelings”), from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from the verb valere (“to be strong”) (see valiant); spelled on the model of French-origin words ending in -ence. The German term was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1910; by 1929, it had taken on a broader literary and general sense. Equivalent to ambi- +…
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Words from these letters
- bivalence 16
- imbalance 15
- ambiance 14
- ambience 14
- amicable 14
- caveman 14
- cavemen 14
- enviable 13
- valencia 13
- valiance 13
- velamina 13
- alembic 13