JEALOUSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jealousy mean? 

• JEALOUSY (noun)
  The noun JEALOUSY has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)

2. zealous vigilance

  Familiarity information: JEALOUSY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEALOUSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

green-eyed monster; jealousy

Hypernyms ("jealousy" is a kind of...):

enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Zealous vigilance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy

Hypernyms ("jealousy" is a kind of...):

alertness; vigilance; wakefulness; watchfulness (the process of paying close and continuous attention)

 Context examples 

How was such jealousy to be quieted?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Miss Bingley was then sorry that she had proposed the delay, for her jealousy and dislike of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Its origin—jealousy perhaps, or wanton cruelty—was yet to be unravelled.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have no jealousy of any individual.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jealousy, of course, at once suggests itself as the motive for the crime.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And all this affected her as a very noble state of consciousness; nor did she dream that behind it and underlying it were the jealousy and desire of love.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I would tell you where, for I trust you, but it'd make jealousy among the mates.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To Buck’s surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)