interjealousy

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English

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Etymology

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From inter- +‎ jealousy.

Noun

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interjealousy (countable and uncountable, plural interjealousies)

  1. Jealousy between multiple parties.
    • 1862, The New Monthly Magazine, page 261:
      The interjealousy of European nations has ever prevented either one or all together operating in favour of the Christian nationalities oppressed by the Turks []
    • 1925, The Twentieth Century, volume 98, page 916:
      The rest of the tradition concerns the bluff habits of John and his sons, the interjealousy of the seven young men on the question of precedence, and the whimsical way taken by the old man for evading a direct settlement []