define: envy
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Envy 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 her envy, but that person also wishes to inflict misfortune on others.
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- Envy comes from the Latin word invidere, which literally means “look upon.” You know when you say something funny or smart and someone gives you the evil eye? Envy all the way. Envy can be used as a noun or as a verb: Envy (noun) is the feeling you have when you envy (verb) what someone else has. n a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another.
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Corruption and the Fatal Power of Envy The fatal force, envy, drives these slaves to eradicate any sign of the very laws that could save them. Undisciplined passion breeds envy because aimless passion is insatiable. Thucydides views envy as a sad sort of desire; it wants what it can not possess, and it is blind to what it does possess.
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Greed The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride. Avarice (2012), by Jesus Solana. Greed (OE grǽdum) is an inordinate or insatiable longing, especially for wealth, status, and power. As secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of wants once desired needs are eliminated.
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envy Definitions of rancour. 1. intense resentment. a feeling of sulky resentment. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation. a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. an envious eagerness to possess something. a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
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Team EnVyUs Team EnVyUs. Team EnVyUs (often abbreviated to EnVy or nV) is an American eSports organization founded in 2007 who used to be mainly known for their competitive Call of Duty background. The organization currently competes in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive bearing the core of the former Team LDLC squad. They are known as the Boys in Blue.
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envy 1 As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy —Livy. 2  Envy hit him … like lack of oxygen —William Mcllvanney. ( 3 Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for) envy is a kind of praise —John Gay.  Envy is like a fly that passes all a body’s sounder parts and dwells upon the sores —George Chapman.
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Jealousy The experience of envy involves: 1  Feelings of inferiority. 2  Longing. 3  Resentment of circumstances. 4  Ill will towards envied person often accompanied by guilt about these feelings. 5  Motivation to improve. 6  Desire to possess the attractive rival's qualities. 7  Disapproval of feelings.
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envyverb  [ T] B2 to wish that you had something that another person has: I envy her ability to talk to people she's never met before. [ + two objects ] I don't envy you the job of cooking for all those people. More examples. Some of his colleagues envy the enormous wealth that he has amassed.
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- Jealousy is the result or fear of losing someone or something that one is attached to or possesses to another person (the transfer of a lover's affections in the typical form), while envy is the resentment caused by another person having something that one does not have, but desires for oneself.
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Jealousy In its original meaning, jealousy is distinct from envy, though the two terms have popularly become synonymous in the English language, with jealousy now also taking on the definition originally used for envy alone. Jealousy is a typical experience in human relationships.
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What is the Difference Between Envy and Jealousy? And so envy is a two-person situation whereas jealousy is a three-person situation. Envy is a reaction to lacking something. Jealousy is a reaction to the threat of losing something (usually someone).
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- ab•hor•rence (ab hôr′əns, -hor′-),USA pronunciation n. 1  a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; 2  something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome. 3  abhorr(ent) + -ence 1650–60.  1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . execration, detestation.
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- Definition of admiration. 1 : a feeling of respect and approval They had/felt great admiration for her courage. 2 : an object of esteem … his perfect horsemanship … was one of my earliest admirations.
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- The definition of ambition is motivation or a strong urge to achieve something. An example of someone who has ambition is an ice skater who practices for hours each day in hopes of competing in the Olympics. a strong desire to gain a particular objective; specif., the drive to succeed, or to gain fame, power, wealth, etc.
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- 123-24 nec, qui detractat praesentia, Livor iniquo ullum de nostris dente momordit opus), and the image would cohere nicely with the cowardly snake of 102: the serpent tooth of envy does not feed on morally elevated individuals such as Maximus but on the inferior forms of life found in its naturally lower habitat.
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disgust disgust-strong feelings of dislike. dislike-a feeling of aversion or antipathy; my dislike of him was instinctive. detestation, execration, loathing, abhorrence, abomination, odium-hate coupled with disgust.
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- See Also: EATING AND DRINKING, ENVY. ( 1 My) avarice cooled like lust in the chill grave —Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2  Avarice is like a graveyard; it takes all that it can get and gives nothing back —Josh Billings.  Avaricious … like a pig which seeks its food in the mud, without caring where it comes from —Jean B. M. Vianney.
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greed Switch to new thesaurus. desire - an inclination to want things; a man of many desires. avariciousness, cupidity, avarice, covetousness - extreme greed for material wealth. possessiveness - excessive desire to possess or dominate.
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Envy Envy is among the things that comes from the heart, defiling a person. The whole body is full of darkness when the eye, the lamp of body, is bad. He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished, said Solomon. Envy ruins the body's health, making bones rot and prohibiting the inheritance of the kingdom of God.
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Team EnVyUs Team EnVyUs, known as Team Envy (abbrev. nV) or as The Boys in Blue, is an esports organization based in the United States. It was founded in 2007 as a competitive Call of Duty team. It is currently managed by Mike Hastr0 Rufail and Tyler Thompson. Trevor TmarTn Martin additionally holds equity in the company.
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penis envy (psychoanal) a Freudian concept in which envy of the penis is postulated as the cause for some of the characteristics found in women. penis envy in Culture. In Freudian theory, the repressed desire of females to possess a penis. Note: Penis envy is also used generally to mean a supposed female envy of men.
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Definitions &Translations Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Annoyance. Annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. It can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. The property of being easily annoyed is called irritability.
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Envy Envy, from Latin in, against, and video, to look, to look with ill-will, etc., toward another, is an evil strongly condemned in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is to be distinguished from jealousy. We are jealous of our own; we are envious of another man's possessions.
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envious Definition of envious for Students. : feeling or showing unhappiness over someone else's good fortune and a desire to have the same.
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- ab•hor•rence (ab hôr′əns, -hor′-),USA pronunciation n. 1  a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; 2  something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome. 3  abhorr(ent) + -ence 1650–60.  1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . execration, detestation.