invidiousness
Noun
Meaning
invidiousness (usually uncountable, plural invidiousnesses)
(rare) Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.