jealousy
noun/ˈdʒeləsi/
/ˈdʒeləsi/
(plural jealousies)
- [uncountable] a feeling of being jealous
- I felt sick with jealousy.
- He felt a sudden stab of pure sexual jealousy.
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsb2- Her promotion aroused intense jealousy among her colleagues.
- I felt a pang of jealousy.
- She'd never felt jealousy before.
- his obsessive jealousy of his ex-wife
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extreme
- intense
- pure
- …
- fit
- pang
- stab
- …
- feel
- arouse
- cause
- …
- jealousy of
- feelings of jealousy
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- [countable] an action or a remark that shows that a person is jealous
- I'm tired of her petty jealousies.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French gelosie, from gelos, from medieval Latin zelosus, from Latin zelus ‘zeal, jealousy’.
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