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Jealousy vs Rage - What's the difference?

jealousy | rage |

As a noun jealousy

is (uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity.

As a verb rage is

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jealousy

English

Noun

  • (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 :
    • Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.
  • 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.
  • * :
    • 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

    * jealousness

    Antonyms

    * compersion

    Related terms

    * jealous (pos a) * jealously (pos adv) * jalousie * zealous

    External links

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    rage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Violent uncontrolled anger.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • A current fashion or fad.
  • :
  • (lb) Any vehement passion.
  • *(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • *:in great rage of pain
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
  • *(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
  • *:convulsed with a rage of grief

    • Synonyms

    * fury * ire

    Derived terms

    * pavement rage * road rage * roid rage * trolley rage

    Verb

    (rag)
  • (label) To act or speak in heightened anger.
  • (label) To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • The madding wheels / Of brazen chariots raged ; dire was the noise.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • "The two women murmured over the spirit-lamp, plotting the eternal conspiracy of hush and clean bottles while the wind raged and gave a sudden wrench at the cheap fastenings.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
  • *
  • (label) To enrage.
    • (Shakespeare)

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