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    [Noun]  | "en*vy" | \ ˈen-vē \


    1: painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage

    2: malice

    3: an object of envious notice or feeling


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English envie, from Anglo-French, from Latin invidia, from invidus envious, from invidēre to look askance at, envy, from in- + vidēre to see: ;

    [Noun]  | "penis envy" 


    1: the supposed coveting of the penis by a young human female which is held in Freudian psychoanalytic theory to lead to feelings of inferiority and defensive or compensatory behavior


    Origin: 1924 ;

    [Verb]  | "envy" 


    1: to feel envy toward or on account of

    2: begrudge

    3: to feel or show envy


    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Idiom]  | "green with envy" 


    1: very envious

    [Noun phrase]  | "object of envy" 


    1: someone or something that causes people to be envious

    [Noun]  | "envy" 


    1: a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too;


      * e.g., " ... their envy of their neighbor's fancy home threatened to wreck their friendship "



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    [Verb]  | "envy" 


    1: to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages;


      * e.g., " ... her coworkers envied her chummy relationship with the senior vice president "



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    [Phrase]  | "green with envy" 


    1: having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages;


      * e.g., " ... She was green with envy when her rival took home the gold. "





     [ "envy" ]

    1: One of the seven deadly sins- Envy is a feeling of grudging admiration for another's talent, integrity, personality, looks, money or happiness.

      * e.g.,  ... He didn't want to see her happy so he set up a plan to attempt to bring her unhappiness. 


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    2: Envy oftens serves as the motivation for different acts.

      * e.g.,  ... She had envy in her heart of the girl who always beat her talent-wise so she set out to make everyone hate her through lies, manipulate measures and deception. 


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    3: Envy may lead one to avoid, to dislike or to insinuate the so called superior person is bad to make others think badly of them. They wish for the other person to not have whatever they are envious and go to extreme measures to prevent them from having it. If they can't get it they are satisfied with trying to destroy thier happiness through under-handed means.

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    1: To feel hatred towards a person who you feel has more than you and a better life. I think people learn to envy by watching all these rap videos and kim kardisian bullshit. You program your subconcious to feel this envy in your heart. For example if you watch rich and famous people all day and you come into the presence of one and they show you how they live you would feel intimidated and ashamed for nothing. People who brag have low self esteem. Learn to imagine your self in the mind instead of thinking about how rich Justin Bieber is and what he has and meet him and he'll envy you for being strong not like most of his kick ass fans and fake friends who prey on him to get money

      * e.g.,  ... I envy her she has a sexy boyfriend 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: When you wish you had someones looks, talent, nice car and personality but you dont so you badmouth them to make yourself look better or them look worse. It's called leveling and practiced by those with low self esteem/insecurity.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn, I wish i had a cool personality/ good looks/nice car like that but since I don't I'll just talk about the person. Must be envy. 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: the wanting/desire/admiration of or for what another person has. Commonly confused with jealousy, but not the same.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn that bitch is so skinny. I wish i was skinny like her, I envy her. 

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    1: A bitter state or hatred induced by another having something more than oneself. Most acute between people where the difference is slight, eg, a neighbour with a minutely more expensive car. The most denied emotion - "I'm not envious, I don't hate her because she's got more money than me!".

      * e.g.,  ... People envy Paris Hilton because she has large wealth for which she has done nothing, but they comment on other aspects of her rather than this. 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: A Brand of Liquor similar to Hpnotiq, but it is dark blue and tastes like blueberry

      * e.g.,  ... Yo muthafucka! Pass that Envy 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: a horrible movie with jack black

      * e.g.,  ... i dont envy the creators of Envy. 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: a very l337 cs player. Amazing with Ak and very clutch

      * e.g.,  ... envy > holla 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: when someone is so posessed by evil and jealousy they go to incredible lengths to see the envied person experience even an ounce of pain compared to what is their life. They are miserable inside so they try to make everyone else miserable too. They wish they were like you yet try to convince people how bad you are. They want people to dislike you because they are so jealous.

      * e.g.,  ... sonny wishes he had money, looks and life experience and looks at his friend and feels envy cause he dosent have anything. 

     [ "envy" ]

    1: envy is a jack of all trades, most notably his ability to smash any egirl he desires. envy’s favourite anime is Mirai Nikki.

      * e.g.,  ... envy is so goddamn sexy, fucccccc. 

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