Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Cæsar.
An object of envious notice or feeling.
To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Envy: another negative ego feeling and emotion. The enlightened being is never envious for all are seen as the Eternal Self and the enlightened being is incredibly pleased when others succeed, for others succeeding is the same as God succeeding for your brother/sister, yourself, and God all share the same identity. So again would your right big toe be envious of the success of your small left toe or happy for it? Only in the negative egos deluded sense of reality could envy exist
A feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another
spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
feel envious towards; admire enviously
While the dictionary defines "envy" as a combination of discontent, resentment and desire - usually for the possessions, advantages or qualities of another, Keppe adds a new dimension to this definition, broader than ordinary jealousy and closer to the Latin root of the word: invidere (in = non, videre = to see). Keppe sees envy as a psychological blindness, a negation of awareness, an unconscious wish to destroy the goodness and beauty we see not just in others but in our own lives as well. Although Keppe was originally trained as a Freudian analyst, he observed in his clinical practice that his patients exhibited envy that was not, as Freud proposed, sexually based. Instead, it was due to a broader rejection of love, an unconscious dismissal of the goodness, truth and beauty in oneself and in others. In Keppe's opinion, envy, although mainly unseen, is the primary destructive psychological force behind all ills - mental, physical and social.
Envy represents one of the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man. A statue embodying the human characteristic of envy can be found inside the Rock of Eternity.
Envy is an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."Parrott, W. G., & Smith, R. H. (1993).