NOUN | feeling | enviousness, envy | a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another |
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Meaning | A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. | |
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Synonym | envy | |
Narrower | covetousness | An envious eagerness to possess something |
jealousy, green-eyed monster | A feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | |
penis envy | (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis | |
Broader | resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will |
Spanish | envidia | |
Catalan | enveja | |
Adjectives | envious | showing extreme / extreme cupidity |
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