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.

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