envy
noun
[ ˈɛnvi ]
• a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.
• "she felt a twinge of envy for the people on board"
Similar:
jealousy,
enviousness,
covetousness,
desire,
resentment,
resentfulness,
bitterness,
discontent,
spite,
the green-eyed monster,
envy
verb
• desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else).
• "he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends"
Similar:
be envious of,
be jealous of,
begrudge,
grudge,
be resentful of,
Opposite:
be glad for,
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’.
