Jealousy and Malice

Jealousy

Jealousy noun - A painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too.

Usage example: her jealousy over her sister's singing career drove the two of them apart

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Malice and jealousy are semantically related. in envy topic. In some cases you can use "Malice" instead a noun "Jealousy".

Nearby Words: jealous, jealously

Malice noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Usage example: there was no reason other than pure malice to spread such disgusting lies all over campus

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Jealousy and malice are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Jealousy" instead a noun "Malice".

Nearby Word: malicious

human	human jealousy	human malice
pure	pure jealousy	pure malice
usual	usual jealousy	usual malice
utter	utter jealousy	utter malice
Other adjectives: genuine, sheer, plain, little, personal, apparent, hidden, overwhelming, occasional, seething, accumulated.

A combination of jealousy, poorly-worded directives, and just plain malice turned him into who we see in the present-day.

Source: Antagonistic Offspring
Jo even shows jealousy of Meg's boyfriend and later husband John Brooke, but not out of malice but because she's scared of losing Meg's emotional support.

Source: Literature / Little Women
The "evil eye" is said to be a sort of Death Glare stemmed from jealousy or just malice that could bring harm to whoever it is given to.

Source: Anti-Magic