ENVIOUSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)