different between jealousy vs zealot

English

Etymology

From Middle English jalousie, from Old French jalousie, see jealous, -y. Doublet of jalousie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??l?si/
• Hyphenation: jeal?ous?y

Noun

jealousy (countable and uncountable, plural jealousies)

1. (uncountable) A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.
2. (countable) A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.
   • 1907, Charles J. Archard, The Portland Peerage Romance:

     Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.

3. Envy towards another's possessions
   • 1891, Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, translated by R. W. Phipps, Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte:

     […] the jealousy of his foes of each other's share in the booty […].

4. (archaic) A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.

Synonyms

• jealousness

Antonyms

• compersion

Related terms

• jealous (adjective)
• jealously (adverb)
• jalousie
• zealous

Translations

Further reading

• Jealousy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jealousy in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

English

Etymology

Initially only found as Middle English zelote, an epithet of Simon the Zealot, acquiring its current senses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Middle English derives from Latin z?l?t?s, from Ancient Greek ??????? (z?l?t?s, “emulator, zealous admirer, follower”), from ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from ????? (z?ló?, “to emulate, to be jealous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?l.?t/
• Hyphenation: zeal?ot

Noun

zealot (plural zealots)

1. One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic
2. (historical) A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
3. (historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.

Quotations

• 1892: Yet Brahmans rule Benares still, / Buddh-Gaya's ruins pit the hill, / And beef-fed zealots threaten ill / To Buddha and Kamakura. — Rudyard Kipling, Buddha at Kamakura

Synonyms

• enthusiast
• fanatic

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Laotze