Intolerant vs Jealousy - What's the difference?
intolerant | jealousy |
Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
* Arbuthnot
Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.
One who is intolerant; a bigot.
* 1856 , John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell
(uncountable) A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.
(countable) A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.
* 1907 , Charles J. Archard, The Portland Peerage Romance :
Envy towards another's possessions
* 1891 , Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, translated by R. W. Phipps, Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte :
(archaic) A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.
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As an adjective intolerant
is intolerant; not tolerant.As a noun jealousy is
(uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity.intolerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am lactose-intolerant , so I can't drink milk.
- The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
Noun
(en noun)- a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants , might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.
References
* * ----jealousy
English
Noun
- Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.
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- For euer I supoosed that he had ben to yonge and to tendyr to take vpon hym these aduentures / And therfore by my wille I wold haue dryuen hym aweye for Ialousy that I had of his lyf / for it maye be no yong knyghtes dede that shal enchyeue this aduenture to the ende