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Definition: Jealousy |
JealousyNoun1. A feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival). 2. Zealous vigilance: "cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jealousy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Etymology: Jealousy \Jeal"ous*y\, noun; plural Jealousies. [ French jalousie. See Jealous, and compare to Jalousie.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Jealousy suspicion of a wife's purity, one of the strongest passions (Num. 5:14; Prov. 6:34; Cant. 8:6); also an intense interest for another's honour or prosperity (Ps. 79:5; 1 Cor. 10:22; Zech. 1:14). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are jealous of your wife, denotes the influence of enemies and narrow-minded persons. If jealous of your sweetheart, you will seek to displace a rival. If a woman dreams that she is jealous of her husband, she will find many shocking incidents to vex and make her happiness a travesty. If a young woman is jealous of her lover, she will find that he is more favorably impressed with the charms of some other woman than herself. If men and women are jealous over common affairs, they will meet many unpleasant worries in the discharge of every-day business. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | An irrational reaction compounded of grief, loss of self-esteem, enmity against the rival and self criticism. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Jealousy comprises a form of the deadly sin of envy, but implies a feeling of personal claim which is not present in envy, as well as the requirement of a third person.
The word stems from the French jalousie, formed from jaloux (jealous), and further from Low Latin zelosus (full of zeal), and from the Greek word for "ardour, zeal", with a root connoting "to boil, ferment"; or "yeast "), originally a condition of zealous emulation.
See also crime of passion, delusional jealousy.
The jealousy of God, as in Exodus xx. 5, "For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God," has been defined by Pusey (Minor Prophets, 1860) as the attribute "whereby he does not endure the love of his creatures to be transferred from him".
"Jealous", by etymology, is however, only another form of "zealous", and the identity is exemplified by such expressions as "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts" (i Kings xix. 10).
A kind of glass, thick, ribbed and non-transparent, was formerly known as "jealous-glass," and this application is seen in the borrowed French word jalousie, a blind or shutter, made of slats of wood, which slope in such a way as to admit air and a certain amount of light, while excluding rain and sun and inspection from without.
Original text from http://1911encyclopedia.org.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jealousy."
Synonym: JealousySynonym: green-eyed monster (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jealousy | Verb: be jealous; Adjective: view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye. |
Noun: jealousy,jealousness; jaundiced eye; envious suspicion, suspicion; " green-eyed monster "; yellows; Juno. | |
Unbelief Doubt | Doubt; (uncertainty); skepticism, scepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Jealousy |
| English words defined with "jealousy": Cain, corollary, covetously ♦ enviously, Evil-eyed, Extinguishment ♦ Jealoushood, Jealousies, jealously ♦ mortally ♦ open marriage ♦ paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia ♦ Sourt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "jealousy": Abel and Cain, Abuse, Aldabella ♦ Back ♦ Captain, Cars, Cassio, Cephalus and Procris, Cut neither Nails nor Hair at Sea ♦ Green-Eyed Jealousy ♦ Harmonia's Robe, Horse ♦ Ironing ♦ Jealousy offering, Jealousy, Image of, Jealousy, Waters of ♦ Key ♦ Lamp, Lemons, Letter, Letter-carrier, Lettuce ♦ Malbecco ♦ Paranoid Disorders, Pheasant, Polixenes ♦ Roland ♦ Shark, Singing, Sky, Sugar ♦ Tattoo ♦ Vicar ♦ Water of Jealousy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "jealousy": Jealoushood. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. (My Best Friend's Wedding; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Well, possible motives for murder are profit, revenge, jealousy, to conceal a crime, to avoid humiliation, or plain old homicidal mania. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini) You know, Robert gets the jealousy thing from me. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster) Anguish, ecstasy, faith, jealousy, love, hatred, life or death. (The Petrified Forest; writing credit: Robert E. Sherwood; Charles Kenyon) O beware my lord,of jealousy! It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. (Othello; writing credit: William Shakespeare) | |
Lyrics | O, jealousy (Jealousy; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis) Taste of jealousy (Something So Strong; performing artist: Crowded House) To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule (Babylon; performing artist: David Gray) Knahm'talkinbout? Jealousy, infidelity, envy (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jealousy (1945) Scars of Jealousy (1923) Madame Jealousy (1918) The Luck That Jealousy Brought (1917) Seeds of Jealousy (1916) | |
Song Titles | Jealousy (performing artist: Natalie Merchant) | |
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 | A kind of jealousy of her daughter for one strange moment possessed her -- jealousy of youth and love and opening life : or the evening seemed to halo and caress her. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Professional jealousy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The next spell of jealousy he had was the day Mrs. Buttercup and a girl friend walked down the street with a young man. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Epictetus | Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. |
| Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. | |
George Eliot | Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. |
| Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. | |
George Meredith | Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. |
Iris Murdoch | Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. |
John Dryden | Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul. |
| Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. | |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | There is jealousy. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This had filled him with jealousy, and he had done what he could on all occasions to injure Madeleine. |
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Business | Thus the transition to a more centralized system of wastewater management has been subject to inter-agency jealousy, rivalry and infighting. (references) | |
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Martha Stewart | Well, I'm sure there's jealousy. I am sure there's envy. I am sure there's misunderstanding. I am sure there's all kinds of things like that. They don't understand what I do. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Nor can such arrangements, with such objects, be exposed to the censure or jealousy of the warmest friends of republican government. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By increasing the number of the States the confidence of the State governments in their own security is increased and their jealousy of the National Government proportionally diminished. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The powers exercised by the Federal Government would soon be regarded with jealousy by the State authorities, and originating as they must from implication or assumption, it would be impossible to affix to them certain and safe limits. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Removing the burden of expense and jealousy, which must always accrue from a keen rivalry, is one of the most effective methods of diminishing that unreasonable hysteria and misunderstanding which are the most potent means of fomenting war. |
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| "Jealousy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jealousy" is used about 712 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 712 | 9,427 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "jealousy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Cana | N/A | Biblical | Jealousy |
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Expressions using "jealousy": a touch of jealousy ♦ fit of jealousy ♦ jealousy offering ♦ view with jealousy ♦ water of jealousy. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | zili (envy, heartburning), xhelozi (heartburning, mettle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | يقظة شديدة, غيرة (ardor, ardour), غل (cuff, fetter, malevolence, manacle, pique, shackle, venom, yield), حسد (animosity, be jealous, begrudge, envy, grudge), حرص (assiduity, attention, care, take notice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ревност (eagerness, fervency, heartburning, mettle, violence, zealotry), ревнивост, завист (envy, heartburning, jaundice), подозрителност (suspicion, suspiciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吃醋 , 嫉' (Envied, Envying, JEALOUS, Jealousies), '忌 (jealous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závist (envy), řevnivost, žárlivost (green-eyed monster, heartburning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skinsyge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | jaloezie (envy, Venetian blind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ĵaluzo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | øvund (envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حسادت , رشک . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mustasukkaisuus, kateellisuus (envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jalousie, envie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eifersucht (jealousness, jealousy (of)), neid (enviousness, envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζήλια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק א" (envy, grudge), צ"יב" (enmity), צרות עין (avarice, envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | féltékenység (yellows). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kedengkian (spite, spitefullness), kecemburuan, cemburuan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gelosia (envy, jealousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 猜疑心 (suspicion), 猜疑 (suspicion), 焼餅 (roasted rice cake), 焼き餅 (roasted rice cake), 焼き (roasted rice cake), 焼きもち (roasted rice cake), 焼もち (roasted rice cake), 悋気 , 吝気 , 岡焼き (envy), 嫉妬 , ジェット燃料 (diethylene glycol, diopter, gem, gemstone, gender, gender gap, general, general strike, generalist, generate, generation, generation gap, generator, generic, generic brand, genetic, genetic algorithms, genetic system, genocide, gentleman, geography, geology, geometric, geometry, Geotopia, gerontocracy, gerontology, Japanese External Trade Organization, jelly, Jenkins, Jerry, jet fuel, JETRO, The End), 妬心 , 妬み (envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おかやき (envy), ねたみ (envy), しっと, さいぎし" (suspicion), さいぎ (reconsideration, redeliberation, rites, ritual, suspicion), り"き (expedient), やきもち (roasted rice cake), ジェラシー , とし" (harelip, heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시기심 (Jealousies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eadoilys, ead. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ealousyjay ciúme (jaundice). (various references) pizmã (envy, malevolence, malice), invidie (envy, grudging, heart-burning, malevolence, malice), gelozie (envy, heart-burning), bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, foresight, hunch, idea, inkling, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise, suspicion). (various references) ревность (green-eyed monster, heart-burning). (various references) tnùth (bigotry, envy, malice), iadach, eud (zeal), èad. (various references) ljubomora (envy). (various references) celos. (various references) avundsjuka (envy, jaundice). (various references) ความริษยา, ความขี้หึง. (various references) kıskançlık (envy, jaundice, the green-eyed monster), haset (envy, gloating, green-eyed, grudger, grudging, jaundice, malice, the green-eyed monster), özen (application, assiduity, attention, care, elaboration, pains, painstaking, solicitude, thought). (various references) gцrьbilmezзilik. (various references) ревнощі (emulation, heartburn, heartburning), заздрість (envy, grudge, heartburn, heartburning, yellows). (various references) thái độ ghen tuông sự bo bo giữ chặt, thái độ ghen tị, thái độ ghen ghét máu ghen, tính đố kỵ, sự hết sức giữ gìn sự cảnh giác vì ngờ vực, lòng ghen tị, lòng ghen ghét. (various references) gwenwyn (poison, venom), gorfynt (ambitious, envy, jealous, pride, proud), eiddigedd (zeal), cynghorfynt (envy, malice), cenfigen (envy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | zelos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ezeli, invidia, zeli, zelo, zelotypiae, zelum, zelus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | MestoV gar zhlou qumoV androV authV ou feisetai en hmera krisewV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia zelus et furor viri non parcet in die vindictae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For the ielousnesse and the wodnesse of the man shal not sparen in the dai of veniaunce, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 6, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang pangabugho mao ang kapungot sa usa ka tawo; Ug siya dili mopasaylo sa adlaw sa pagpanimalus. |
| Chinese | 為 人 的 嫉 恨 、 成 了 烈 ' ． 仇 的 時 候 、 決 不 留 情 。 |
| Croatian | Jer bijesna je ljubomornost u muža: on ne zna za milost u osvetni dan; |
| Danish | Thi Skinsyge vækker Mandens Vrede, han skåner ikke på Hævnens Dag; |
| Dutch | Want jaloersheid is een grimmigheid des mans; en in den dag der wraak zal hij niet verschonen. |
| Finnish | Sillä luulevaisuus nostaa miehen vihan, ja säälimätön on hän koston päivänä. |
| French | Car la jalousie met un homme en fureur, Et il est sans pitié au jour de la vengeance; |
| German | Denn der Grimm des Mannes eifert, und schont nicht zur Zeit der Rache |
| Haitian Creole | Lè yon mari ap fè jalouzi pou madanm li, nanpwen move tankou l'. Jou li mete men sou nèg la, pa gen anyen li p'ap fè l'. |
| Hungarian | Mert a féltékenység a férfiú haragja, és nem cselekszik kegyelmességgel a bosszúállásnak napján. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab, dengan perbuatannya itu suami wanita itu menjadi cemburu, sehingga kemarahannya meluap-luap. Dan apabila ia membalas dendam, ia tak akan mempunyai belas kasihan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena cemburuan itu mengadakan kehangatan amarah orang laki-laki, dan pada hari tuntutan bela niscaya tiada ia akan tahu sayang, |
| Italian | poiché la gelosia accende lo sdegno del marito, che non avr piet nel giorno della vendetta; |
| Maori | He riri nui hoki na te tangata te hae; e kore ano e tohungia e ia i te ra rapu utu. |
| Norwegian | For nidkjær er mannens vrede, og han sparer ikke på hevnens dag; |
| Portuguese | porque o ciúme enfurece ao marido, que de maneira nenhuma poupará no dia da vingança. |
| Rumanian | Cqci gelozia knfurie pe un bqrbat, wi n`are milq kn ziua rqzbunqrii; |
| Russian | ПФПНХ ЮФП ТЕЧОПУФШ--СТПУФШ НХЦБ, Й ОЕ ПЭБ"ЙФ ПО Ч "ЕОШ НЭЕОЙС, |
| Spanish | porque los celos del hombre son su furor, y él no perdonará en el día de la venganza. |
| Swedish | Ty svartsjuk är mannens vrede, och han skonar icke på hämndens dag; |
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Misspellings | |
"Jealousy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jaeluos, jaleous, jalousi, jalousy, jealosusy, jealosy, jeeoos, jelaous, jeleous, jellous, jelous, jelousy, jeolous, zealousy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jealousy" (pronounced je"lusē) |
| 4 | -l u s ē | fallacy, policy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, courtesy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, diplomacy, ecstasy, embassy, fantasy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, intricacy, legacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-j-l-o-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: jealous. | |
-2 letters: jouals, joules. | |
-3 letters: aloes, joeys, joles, joual, joule, louse, lousy, lyase, ousel, sajou, youse, yules. | |
-4 letters: ales, aloe, also, ayes, easy, eyas, jays, joes, joey, jole, joys, lase, lays, leas, leys, lose, lues, lyes, lyse, olea, oles, oyes, sale, saul, seal, slay, sloe, slue, soja, sola, sole, soul, soya, yeas, yule. | |
-5 letters: ale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-j-l-o-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: jealously. | |
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