Rivalship vs Jealousy - What's the difference?
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Rivalry
* 1776 — ,
(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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Rivalship is a related term of jealousy.
As nouns the difference between rivalship and jealousy
is that rivalship is rivalry while jealousy is (uncountable) a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc, from fears of infidelity.rivalship
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)Wealth of Nations, page 759
- Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
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