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ENVIOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
Synonyms:
enviousness; envy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("enviousness" is a kind of...):
bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enviousness"):
covetousness (an envious eagerness to possess something)
green-eyed monster; jealousy (a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival))
penis envy ((psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity)
Derivation:
envious (showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages)
