enviousness
Wanting others' advantages
Enviousness is the quality of feeling or showing envy—resentment toward others for what they have or have achieved.
It's the noun form of envious, describing a state rather than a moment: Her enviousness toward her sister's success poisoned their relationship.
The word emphasizes the trait as ongoing or characteristic.
Intense wanting
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- avariceExcessive desire for riches
acquisitiveness · materialism · grasping · wanting · hankering · longing · pining · lusting
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- spitePetty malicious intent
- grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
- animosityActive, bitter hostility
hostility · rancor · acrimony · malice · discontent · grievance · displeasure · vexation
Ongoing contest between opponents
- comparisonAssessment of similarities
- emulationCopying to rival
- ambitionDesire for achievement
- competitivenessDrive to outperform others
one-upmanship · keeping up · status-seeking · aspiration · striving · measuring · benchmarking · outdoing
Lower status or quality
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- self-doubtUncertainty about oneself
- insecurityUncertainty about oneself
- unworthinessLack of merit
dissatisfaction · discontentment · unfulfillment · lacking · deficiency · shortcoming · vulnerability · sensitivity
desire
Intense wanting
avarice · acquisitiveness · materialism · grasping · wanting · hankering · longing · pining · lusting · begrudging
bitterness
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- spitePetty malicious intent
- grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
animosity · hostility · rancor · acrimony · malice · discontent · grievance · displeasure · vexation · indignation
rivalry
Ongoing contest between opponents
- comparisonAssessment of similarities
- emulationCopying to rival
- ambitionDesire for achievement
competitiveness · one-upmanship · keeping up · status-seeking · aspiration · striving · measuring · benchmarking · outdoing · surpassing
inferiority
Lower status or quality
- inadequacyState of being insufficient
- self-doubtUncertainty about oneself
- insecurityUncertainty about oneself
unworthiness · dissatisfaction · discontentment · unfulfillment · lacking · deficiency · shortcoming · vulnerability · sensitivity · wounded pride
enviousnesscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
contentedness · satisfaction · gratitude · thankfulness · self-sufficiency
enviousnessbenevolence
Disposition toward doing good
goodwill · generosity · magnanimity · kindness · charitableness
envy, envious, invidious, enviable, envies, envied, unenviable, enviously, enviably