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Outrageous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Paradox and ambivalence

How to use these two words ?
eg.I felt a modicum of ambivalence . So ambivalence refers to feeling.
eg."more haste, less speed" is a paradox.
I understand their meaning but I was confounded on their usage .
  

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Your problem is not clear to me. They function much like other nouns: use them when you did a word with their meaning.

— Mister Micawber

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  • They function much like other nouns: use them when you did a word with their meaning.
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Your problem is not clear to me. They function much like other nouns: use them when you did a word with their meaning.
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What do you mean "They function much like other nouns" ?
Do you mean paradox and ambivalence function like each other ?
I am sorry for my poor understanding. Thank you and please correct any of my mistakes ,I appreciate it.
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They are just nouns with their own meanings. You have not made clear why those particular two nouns are a problem for you.
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"more haste ,less speed "is a paradox.
I am ambivalent that I should speed or not.
Are the two sentences have same meaning ? I am not coherent, so I think this still can't make sense to you
Erm............Can you give me some eg. of these 2 words?

Thank you
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"More haste, less speed" is a paradox.
I am ambivalent about whether I should speed or not.

Are the two sentences have same meaning?-- No, the two sentences are unrelated in meaning, except that they both have the topic of 'speed'.

Start by googling each of the two words and gathering 2 or 3 sentences for each that seem good or meaningful to you.
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Ambivalently paradoxical or paradoxically ambivalent?

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Thank you for your kind response. My therapist recently offered the term, "ambivalent paradox" as an alternative to one I use frequently in sessions with her, "holding the tensions between life's dueling opposites", considered a foundational precept in Jungian psychology - holding the balance between the opposites by remaining conscious of both at the same time.

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