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love's bodyguard, hired without an interview and prone to shooting the wrong person.
means The uneasy, often painful feeling that arises when you fear losing someone or something to a rival, or resent another's perceived advantage.
from From Old French 'jalousie,' built on 'jaloux' (jealous), which traces back to Late Latin 'zelosus,' meaning 'full of zeal' — and that comes ultimately from Greek 'zelos,' ardent feeling or eager rivalry. So jealousy and zeal are siblings: the same hot devotion, one pointed outward as enthusiasm, the other inward as suspicion. Curiously, English 'jealousy' and 'zeal' both descend from that single Greek root, which is also why a window blind that lets you watch unseen is called a 'jalousie.'
- green-eyed
- Shakespeare coined the phrase in Othello
- brain overlap
- fires same regions as physical pain
- babies do it
- infants show jealousy by six months
- dog version
- dogs get jealous of fake rival pets
- language quirk
- English fuses envy and jealousy, French does not
othello — shakespeare's 1604 tragedy where othello murders desdemona over unfounded jealousy of cassio
green-eyed monster — iago's phrase in othello act 3 describing jealousy as a consuming force
medea — greek mythology: medea kills her own children in 431 bce play by euripides, driven by jason's betrayal