enviousness

Definitions of enviousness
  1. noun
    a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
    synonyms: envy
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    types:
    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
    type of:
    bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentment
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
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