[ˈɛnvi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck
(e.g: she felt a twinge of envy for the people on board)


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Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’): from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’

[ˈɛnvi], (Verb)

Definitions:
- desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else)
(e.g: he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends)


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Origin:
Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’): from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’