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RESENTMENT

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• RESENTMENT (noun)
The noun RESENTMENT has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Familiarity information: RESENTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• RESENTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bitterness; rancor; rancour; resentment; gall

Hypernyms ("resentment" is a kind of...):

enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "resentment"):

heartburning (intense resentment)

huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)

grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)

enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

"Rolling stone gathers no moss."
(English proverb)
"Do not hide like a fly under the tail of a horse."
(Albanian proverb)
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."
(Arabic proverb)
"What good serve candle and glasses, if the owl does not want to see."
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of heartburning
Meaning of huffishness
Meaning of grievance
Pronunciation of score
Meaning of enviousness

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