jealousy
- jealousy
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ extreme, intense, pure
▪ insane, irrational, obsessive, pathological
▪ petty
▪ professional, sexual
… OF JEALOUSY
▪ fit
▪ He broke off the engagement in a fit of jealousy.
▪ pang, stab, twinge
▪ I felt a pang of jealousy.
VERB + JEALOUSY
▪ feel
▪ She'd never felt jealousy before.
▪ arouse, cause, create, provoke
▪ Her promotion aroused intense jealousy among her colleagues.
PREPOSITION
▪ jealousy of
▪ his obsessive jealousy of his ex-wife
PHRASES
▪ feelings of jealousy
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jealousy — [jel′əs ē] n. [ME jalousie < OFr gelosie < gelos: see JEALOUS] 1. the quality or condition of being jealous 2. pl. jealousies an instance of this; jealous feeling … English World dictionary
JEALOUSY — Appearing some 80 times in the Bible, the root kna (qnʾ; קנא) in its various derivatives is, in the standard translations of the Bible, most often related to the notion of jealousy (or zeal ). More generally, it connotes any kind of emotional… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
jealousy — n. 1) to arouse jealousy 2) to feel jealousy 3) bitter, blind; fierce; groundless, unfounded; petty jealousy 4) interservice; professional jealousy 5) a fit of jealousy 6) jealousy towards * * * [ dʒeləsɪ] blind fierce groundless … Combinatory dictionary
