and typically refers to the negative thought
s and feeling
s of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of presenting emotions such as anger
, sadness
, resentment
and disgust
. It is not to be confused with envy
.
Jealousy is a familiar experience in human relationships
. It has been observed in infants five months and older.
Some claim that jealousy is seen in every culture;
however, others claim jealousy is a culture-specific phenomenon.
Jealousy is often reinforced as a series of particularly strong emotions and constructed as a universal human experience; it has been a theme of many artistic works that seek to privilege monogamous discourses.
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
"Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?"
"In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth."
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion into certainty.
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemies; its wages to be sure of it.
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."
The jealousy that arises from another’s achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one’s own and other’s achievement.