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单词 rivalry
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rivalryn.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪvlri/, U.S. /ˈraɪvəlri/
Forms: see rival n.2 and adj. and -ry suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rival n.2, -ry suffix.
Etymology: < rival n.2 + -ry suffix. Compare earlier rivality n.In quot. 1844 at sense 1b apparently after German Wettstreit competition, rivalry (1842 in the passage translated), although the phenomenon was described earlier in English (compare the note at the definition).
1.
a. The action of rivalling; competition; the state of being rivals, an instance of this.sibling rivalry: see sibling n. Compounds 2.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun]
rivality1528
strife1530
envy1541
emulation1552
contention1576
pinglinga1578
countermatch1581
paragon1590
competency1594
corrivality1598
rivalry1598
concurrence1603
contestation1603
competitiona1608
rivalling1607
concurrency1609
strift1612
corrivalry1614
rivalty1631
contest1648
corrivalty1649
coping1678
co-rivalry1835
rivalism1850
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H8 Who enuies him? not I, For well he may, without all riualrie.
1613 T. Adams White Deuil 8 Let Rome haue the praise without our enuie or riualrie.
1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 208 Such a wonder of Ugliness..might more aptly have contended in Rivalry with some of Pluto's fiends for deformity.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 101 Those Antagonists who by their Rivalry for Greatness divided a whole Age.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxviii. 23 From those early marriages proceeds likewise the rivalry of parents and children.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. i. 18 Jealousies, rivalries, envy, intervene to separate others from our side.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xviii. 276 The innate selfishness and rivalry of human nature.
1918 R. H. Knyvett ‘Over There’ with Australians xvii. 133 There was a good deal of rivalry between us and another brigade.
1977 J. McPhee Coming into Country ii. 103 Their rivalry is intense to the point of unseemliness.
1989 Japan Times 16 May 6/2 Political rivalries have sharpened between Serbia..and Slovenia and Croatia.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Jan. 56/3 The biathlon..started out as a friendly rivalry between Norwegian and Swedish border guards.
b. Physiology. The alternation of perception between two different images that are presented separately but simultaneously to each eye. More fully binocular rivalry.The phenomenon occurs when the images are sufficiently different to prevent fusion of the two visual fields. It was described by C. Wheatstone in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1838) 128 371, and had been noted earlier by other writers.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers > impairment of perception
rivalry1844
psychic blindness1886
agnosia1897
anhedonia1897
astereognosis1900
simultanagnosia1936
prosopagnosia1950
1844 R. Willis tr. R. Wagner Elements Physiol. iii. §2. iii. 593 §335 This harmony of the two retinæ, this capacity to combine double impressions into one, is manifested everywhere in both eyes, a fact which appears especially from the phenomenon that has been spoken of under the title of the rivalry of the fields of vision [Ger. der Wettstreits der Gesichtsfelder].
1872 Westm. Rev. July 88/2 A very curious instance of the effects of attention is to be found in the so-called ‘rivalry’ (Wettstreit) of the fields of vision.
1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 431 The phenomenon is something like that of binocular rivalry.
1968 R. L. Vasa in M. A. Whitcomb & W. Benson Symp. Measurem. Visual Function 94 Dr. Enoksson found a correlation between binocular rivalry and stereoscopic acuity.
2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Jan. 36/4 In binocular rivalry a different picture is shown to each eye, but the subject sees only one picture.
2. concrete. A group of rivals. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > competitor or rival > a body of
rivalry1802
1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. Sept. 114/2 Rivality then ought to class among the abstract, and rivalry among the collective, terms. The apearance [sic] of Ulysses among the suitors of Penelope disappointed the rivality of the whole rivalry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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