Definition of Envy

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Definition of Envy

Envy

Malice; ill will; spite.

Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.

Emulation; rivalry.

Public odium; ill repute.

An object of envious notice or feeling.

To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.

To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.

To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

To hate.

To emulate.

To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

To show malice or ill will; to rail.

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Envy Quotations

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Envy Translations

envy in Danish is misunde, misundelse
envy in Dutch is benijden, jaloers zijn op, misgunnen
envy in Finnish is kadehtia
envy in French is enviez, envient, envions, envie, envier
envy in German is beneide, Neid, beneiden, beneiden
envy in Italian is invidiare, invidia
envy in Latin is fascino, invidia
envy in Norwegian is misunne, misunnelse
envy in Spanish is envidiar, envidia
envy in Swedish is avundas, avund

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