ENVIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enviousness mean? 

• ENVIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun ENVIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

  Familiarity information: ENVIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

enviousness; envy

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)