as in resentment
a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too
her jealousy over her sister's singing career drove the two of them apart
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Recent Examples of jealousy
Fed Up in Arizona Dear Fed Up: Your boyfriend isn’t likely to overcome his jealousy of your son.
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Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Keōua is a force of pure aggression and chaos, and Curtis gives him the very mortal qualities of pettiness and jealousy to round out a fantastic villain.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Asuka and Sane turned on Sky out of jealousy due to her friendship with Ripley.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
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Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2025
Some part of Baudelaire’s lifelong free-spending and indolence seems to be a direct rebellion against the man, if not outright Freudian jealousy—Charles was an unabashed mama’s boy.
—Literary Hub, 22 Dec. 2025
Keōua is a force of pure aggression and chaos, and Curtis gives him the very mortal qualities of pettiness and jealousy to round out a fantastic villain.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Asuka and Sane turned on Sky out of jealousy due to her friendship with Ripley.
—Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jealousy
Noun
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Andrew Jackson’s campaign against the Second Bank of the United States, for example, expressed a populist resentment of eastern banking on the part of western and southern states.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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The book begins by the deathbed of an elderly sister whose two remaining sisters have a falling out over cake—the kind of domestic spat that becomes mythic and completely unspecific, the details lost in a lingering fog of resentment.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The film follows a lonely fisherwoman who asks a master basket weaver to build her a husband out of wood, only to become the envy of the village that once shunned her.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2026
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America’s creative community is the envy of the world and creates jobs, economic growth, and exports.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Global leaders reflected on rising antisemitism and the need for unity to combat hatred and war, drawing parallels to defeating Nazism in 1945.—
Vanessa Gera,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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The annual global event remembers the 6 million Jewish victims and millions of other victims and the commitment to stand against hatred and intolerance.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Jealousy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jealousy. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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