invidiousness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]invidiousness (usually uncountable, plural invidiousnesses)
- 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.
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[edit]References
[edit]- invidiousness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “invidiousness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “invidiousness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.