Brief digression: Might not we, as presumptive logophiles, employ "jealous" for a feeling about something we nominally possess and are afraid of losing and "envious" for something someone else has and we have not but wish we had? I know some dictionaries allow "envious" as a sub-sub synonym for "jealous," but I think that's only to recognize a frequent confusion of the two words.
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