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JEALOUSY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Zealous vigilance
Example:
cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("jealousy" is a kind of...):
alertness; vigilance; wakefulness; watchfulness (the process of paying close and continuous attention)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
Synonyms:
green-eyed monster; jealousy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("jealousy" is a kind of...):
enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)
Context examples:
It was a trying thing to find people here, waiting for us; and my jealousy, even of the ladies, knew no bounds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
No doubt it had been from jealousy.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
These favours aroused in them jealousy and hatred.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron excepted from the category, jealousy.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I agree with you that complete frankness, however painful it may be to me, is the best policy in this desperate situation to which James’s folly and jealousy have reduced us.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I did not go past the doorway, however, for undue preference gives rise to jealousy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I can only tell you that it was not so, that I was met at every turn by incredulity, born partly of stupidity and partly of jealousy.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Psychotic behavior accompanied simultaneously by persecutory or grandiose delusions (paranoia) and hallucinations (schizophrenia); delusional jealousy may be present.
(Paranoid Type Schizophrenia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
And the pang of new-born jealousy put all incredulity to flight.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He could do nothing till he were assured of his fate with Miss Dashwood; and by his rapidity in seeking THAT fate, it is to be supposed, in spite of the jealousy with which he had once thought of Colonel Brandon, in spite of the modesty with which he rated his own deserts, and the politeness with which he talked of his doubts, he did not, upon the whole, expect a very cruel reception.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
