jealousy
part of speech
noun (jealousy, jealousies)
meaning for a pupil
1) Jealousy is the unhappy, angry feeling of wanting what someone else has. tree →
2) Jealousy is the fear that someone you love likes another person more than you. tree →
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 →
- He broke the toy out of jealousy. tree →
- Jealousy is a normal feeling, but don't be unkind. tree →
- The new baby caused some jealousy at home. tree →
- The stepsisters' jealousy made them cruel. tree →
- Talk to someone if jealousy upsets you. tree →
- At present she was full of jealousy of Wendy. tree →
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.
- Explaining away someone's good marks as "copying" is usually jealousy dressed as news.
- Clever Mole!» Toad is wild with jealousy and can't see what was clever.
- Jealousy is a normal feeling, but being mean because of it is not fair.
- Acting on jealousy by spoiling someone else's things usually hurts the friendship and gets you in trouble.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «jealousy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.