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Definitions of envy in various dictionaries:
noun - a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
noun - spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
verb - feel envious towards
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| The name of this covetous "green" feeling can also mean the person about whom you're feeling it |
| It's a 4-letter longing to possess something belonging to another, like his Porsche |
| Phonetically, it sounds like 2 letters of the alphabet |
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| Desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else) |
| A feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck. |
| a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck. |
| desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else). |
| feel envious towards admire enviously |
| be envious of set one's heart on |
| a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another |
| spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
| The object of such feeling: Their new pool made them the envy of their neighbors. |
| To regard with envy. |
| Envy description |
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| Envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it".Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his or her envy, Russell explained, but that person also wishes to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more just social system. However, psychologists have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envymalicious envy being proposed as a sick force that ruins a person and his/her mind and causes the envious person to blindly want the "hero" to suffer; on the other hand, benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force that causes the person to as |