Meaning

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; admire enviously

originEtymology tree Old French enviebor. Middle English envie English envy From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”). Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ.

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