invidiousness

English

Etymology

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

• 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.