Rivalry vs Jealousy - What's the difference?
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The relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other. The term usually applies to two rivals.
In economics, rivalry is a characteristic of a good. Rivalrous goods are those which can be consumed by only one person at the same time -- for example, a candy bar or a suit; a non-rivalrous good may be provided to more consumers at a very low marginal cost for each additional consumer.
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(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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Rivalry is a related term of jealousy.
As nouns the difference between rivalry and jealousy
is that rivalry is the relationship between two or more rivals who regularly compete with each other the term usually applies to two rivals while jealousy is (uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity.rivalry
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(rivalries)- The Boston Bruins have a longstanding rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens.
jealousy
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- 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