invidiousness
nounEtymology From invidious + -ness.
1
Usually Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
- Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 20, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- Related terms
- invidious, invidiously