n.
A generalized feeling of resentment and often hostility harbored by one individual or group against another, especially chronically and with no means of direct expression.
[French, resentment, from Old French ressentement, from resentir, to feel strongly. See resent.]
interestingly, the root word has nothing to do with hostility or "resentment" but is all about "feeling strongly." is it that ANY feeling that has no means of articulation turns into what we typically define as "resentment?"
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