Jealousy vs Envious - What's the difference?
jealousy | envious |
(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.
* :
Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging
* Bible, Proverbs xxiv. 19.
* Keble
Excessively careful; cautious.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete, poetic) Inspiring envy.
* Spenser
As a noun jealousy
is (uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity.As an adjective envious is
feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.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
Synonyms
* jealousnessAntonyms
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an envious''' man, disposition, or attack; '''envious tongues
- Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
- My soul is envious of mine eye.
- No men are so envious of their health.
- Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
- He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victor's glory from him snatched away.