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Term: Jealousy

DEFINITION:

Feelings of fear, anger, apprehension, wariness, bitterness, etc. resulting from the feelings of fear of being supplanted in a romantic relationship. It is based on the fear of a loss of a possession: a “loved” one. Thus, in reality it is not even based on love, but on feelings of ownership. Still, it is an emotion much desired in some romantic relationships among those who relate love to possession after the mode of romantic love developed in medieval times.