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love's bodyguard who keeps tackling people who were never a threat
means Feeling resentful or anxious that something you value—a partner, a position, a possession—might be taken or shared with someone else.
from From the Greek 'zēlos,' meaning zeal or ardent rivalry, which traveled through Latin 'zelosus' into Old French 'jalous' before reaching English. Tellingly, 'jealous' and 'zealous' are the same word wearing different clothes—both descend from that root of burning eagerness. The original sense was fierce devotion; only later did that heat curdle into the suspicion we mean today.
- green origin
- Shakespeare named it the green-eyed monster in Othello
- brain overlap
- It lights up the same regions as physical pain
- not envy
- Jealousy guards what you have; envy wants what you lack
- baby proof
- Infants show jealousy by six months old
- survival glitch
- Evolved to protect mates, now ruins group chats
othello — shakespeare's tragic protagonist whose jealousy of desdemona's fidelity destroys his marriage and life
cain and abel — biblical brothers where cain's jealousy of abel's favor with god led to the first murder
medea — greek tragic figure who killed her own children in jealous rage over jason's new marriage