noun. 1. the propensity to behave in contrary means, grounded in contradicting attitudinal drives. 2. a trend of unfinished motor reactions in expectation of a deliberate behavior, of which takes place in numb or empty conditions as a kind of psychomotor deceleration in in such a way that the person seems motorically perplexed and displays reluctant, inconclusive movements in the inexistence of deliberate motion. With regard to Jung’s concepts within psychology, the clairvoyant am bivalency that is brought about by the continuation of counteractive habits.
AMBITENDENCY: “Ambientendency often refers to someone’s mixed feelings toward a situation or another individual.”