Human behaviour terms

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I wonder if anyone knows any sites that are full of terms about human bahaviour ? eg. caring, compassionate, jealousy ...... etc ?

Maj · Accepted Answer

Seriously, I badly need some advice on the last one. Does anybody think "he" could help? Lol.   d:

Whl626 · Answer

some advice on the last one ? Ok here we go,

jealous is always accompanied with the preposition ' of '

eg. Someone is jealous of my good looks

How about ' jealous for ' me ? to mean that somebody knows my jealousy and act on my behalf to the third person ? I got this usage from an English professor

but so far seldom any native speaker is on the same wavelength. What do you think ?

Maj · Answer

So if I want to say I feel jealous because I haven't got the slightest idea of what he is up to? How could you put that into a sentence? I am jealous of him?

Rommie · Answer

"Someone is jealous of my good looks"

Shouldn't that be "Someone is ENVIOUS of my good looks"?

I thought "jealous" was that strange behavioural condition which humans get when their sexual partner *** (desires ed.) someone else (or when they are afraid that they might)

Rommie

<---- Smiley to show that, even though I don't understand humans, I do like them.

Whl626 · Answer

To my understanding, both ' jealous' and ' envious ' are the same. But the former emanates the negative sentiment while the other the opposite.

If you are jealous of someone having a big car. ( You would think that he doesn't own it the right way )

envious ( you hope one day you can own it )

I know that it might not be consistent with the actual English explanation on these two terms. But the people here believe this is the difference. But to think deep into it, it stands to reason

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Regarding my looks, they hope, it gets scratched someday

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