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
(the envy of) a person or thing that inspires envy:France has a film industry that is the envy of Europe
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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 [with two objects]:I envy Jane her happiness
desire for oneself (something belonging to another):a lifestyle which most of us would envy
