from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A jealous attitude or disposition.
noun Close vigilance.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The state or character of being jealous; zealous watchfulness; earnest solicitude for that which concerns one's self or others; suspicious care; suspicion.
noun Specifically—2. Distress or resentment caused by suspected or actual loss, through the rivalry of another, of the love, good will, or success one desires to retain or secure; fear or suspicion of successful rivalry, especially in love.
noun The plant Sedum rupestre.
noun Synonyms See envy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases directly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun uncountable A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.
noun countable A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.
noun Envy towards another's possessions
noun archaic A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
noun zealous vigilance
Etymologies
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Old French jalousie, see jealous, -y.
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Examples
These terms rid Natura of a great part of that insupportable constraint he had been under, but gave not the least satisfaction, as to his jealousy of honour; he doubted not but she would be guilty of many things, injurious in the highest degree to their public character, and which yet it would not so well become him to exert his authority in opposing, and these reflections gave him the most terrible inquietude; which shews, that though _jealousy_ is called the child of _love_, it is very possible to feel all the tortures of the
Seems as if we actually ARE getting closer to the end of the 2 year country wide reign of the - I didn't loose the election for John McCain, the people loved me - Palin jealousy snit.
"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions."
"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions."
bilby commented on the word jealousy
"Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars.
This Civil Dissension in the Mind, like that of the Body Politick, commits great Disorders, and lays all waste.
Nothing stands safe in its Way: Nature, Interest, Religion, must Yield to its Fury."
- William Penn, 'Fruits of Solitude'.
September 8, 2009