English

Noun

invidiousness ‎(plural invidiousnesses)

1. (rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch. 20,

     Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.

Related terms

• invidious
• invidiously

References

• “invidiousness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• invidiousness in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “invidiousness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.