invidiousness

English

Etymology

From invidious +‎ -ness.

Noun

invidiousness (usually uncountable, plural invidiousnesses)

1. Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 20, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:

     Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

Related terms

• invidious
• invidiously

References

• Noah Webster (1828) “invidiousness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “invidiousness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “invidiousness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.