What does gelosia in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word gelosia in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use gelosia in Italian.

The word gelosia in Italian means jealousy, envy, resentment, meticulousness, jalousie. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word gelosia

jealousy

sostantivo femminile (sentimento verso persona amata)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La gelosia del suo fidanzato è diventata ormai ingestibile.
Her fiancé's jealousy has gotten out of hand.

envy, resentment

sostantivo femminile (invidia)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La gelosia per i successi di quell'incapace mi ha spinto a cercare un nuovo lavoro in un'altra azienda.
I can't help but envy the success of that incompetent fool.

meticulousness

sostantivo femminile (non comune (cura attenta)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Teneva la casa con gelosia maniacale.
She looked after the house with extreme meticulousness.

jalousie

sostantivo femminile (serramento)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La gelosia è un tipo di serramento poco comune al giorno d'oggi.
Jalousies are rarely used these days.

Let's learn Italian

So now that you know more about the meaning of gelosia in Italian, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Italian.

Do you know about Italian

Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.