Envy

Noun

 * 1) Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
 * 2) * 1983. ROSEN, Stanley.  Plato’s Sophist.  p. 66.
 * Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding
 * 1)  Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
 * 2) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
 * ‘Sir,’ seyde Sir Launcelot unto Kynge Arthur, ‘by this cry that ye have made ye woll put us that bene aboute you in grete jouparté, for there be many knyghtes that hath envy to us [...].’
 * 1) * 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV part 1:
 * But let me tell the World, / If he out-liue the enuie of this day, / England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, / So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.

Verb

 * 1)  To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
 * 2)  To have envious feelings (at).
 * 3) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
 * I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices; [...] let me live quiet and at ease.
 * 1)  To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
 * But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore / A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy [...].

Thesaurus
Faustianism, acedia, anger, avarice, avaritia, begrudge, cast envious eyes, cold comfort, covet, covetousness, crave, deadly sin, desire, disappointment, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disgruntlement, dissatisfaction, dissatisfiedness, divine discontent, enviousness, gluttony, greed, green-eyed jealousy, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, gula, hanker, heartburn, heartburning, horn-madness, ill humor, invidia, invidiousness, ira, jalousie, jaundice, jaundiced eye, jealousness, jealousy, long, longing, lust, luxuria, peevishness, petulance, pride, querulousness, rebelliousness, resent, resentment, restiveness, restlessness, sloth, sourness, sulkiness, superbia, uneasiness, unfulfillment, unhappiness, unpleasure, unsatisfaction, vexation of spirit, want, wrath, yearn

Etymology
From envie from  envie from  invidia "envy" from invidere "to look at with malice" from in + videre ("on, upon" + "to look, see"). Displaced native ande, onde "envy" (from  anda, onda "breath, emotion, envy, hatred, grudge, dislike"),  nithe, nith "envy, malice" (from  nīþ "envy, hatred, malice, spite, jealousy").

Noun

 * Arabic: حسد
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: enveja
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 妒嫉,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: misundelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: irigység
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 嫉妬, ねたみ
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: inveja, ciumes
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: farmad ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: zavist, jal
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఈర్ష్య (eershya), ఈసు (eesu), అసూయ (asooya)
 * Thai: ความริษยา, ความอิจฉา

Verb

 * Arabic: غبط
 * Armenian: նախանձել
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, afgunstig zijn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қызғану
 * Latin:
 * Persian: حسادت ورزیدن
 * Portuguese: invejar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: zavidati
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ริษยา,


 * Bosnian: ljubomorna, ljubomoran , ljubomorno

Related terms

 * envious