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Insidiousness vs Invidiousness - What's the difference?

insidiousness | invidiousness |

As nouns the difference between insidiousness and invidiousness

is that insidiousness is a surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious while invidiousness is (rare) malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.

insidiousness

English

Noun

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  • A surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious.
  • *1900 , Edith Wharton, The Touchstone , ch. 8,
  • *:This lent a new insidiousness to his temptation, since her contempt would be a refuge from his own.

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    invidiousness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
  • *1886 , Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge , ch. 20,
  • *:Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

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    *invidious *invidiously

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