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# jealousy

«jealousy» in Mova's school dictionary: **the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (jealousy, jealousies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Jealousy is the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#m1)

2) Jealousy is the fear that someone you love likes another person more than you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE lessons pupils learn that jealousy is a normal feeling (a new baby sibling, a friend with a new bike, someone else picked first) and how to handle it: talk about it, notice your own good things, be happy for others. In stories jealousy causes trouble, as in Cinderella's stepsisters or Joseph's brothers. Phrases: feel jealousy, out of jealousy, green with envy.

### examples

- She felt jealousy when her friend won the prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x1)
- He broke the toy out of jealousy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x2)
- Jealousy is a normal feeling, but don't be unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x3)
- The new baby caused some jealousy at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x4)
- The stepsisters' jealousy made them cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x5)
- Talk to someone if jealousy upsets you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x6)
- At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/#x7)

### note

Mostly uncountable. Adjective: jealous (jealous of someone). Spelling: jeal-ous-y (ea pronounced like «e» in «jelly»). «Jealousy» and «envy» are close: envy is wanting what others have; jealousy also includes fear of losing someone. Green is the colour of jealousy in English.

### In the corpora

- [Grown-ups have all the same feelings children have: anger, sadness, fear, loneliness, jealousy, embarrassment and pride.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/0/)
- [Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/49-how-to-handle-gossip/10/)
- [Clever Mole!» Toad is wild with jealousy and can't see what was clever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/12/)
- [Jealousy is a normal feeling, but being mean because of it is not fair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/92-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment/7/)
- [Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone else's things usually hurts the friendship and gets you in trouble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/92-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jealousy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jealousy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.