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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
envy/ˈenvi/

▶noun (pl. envies) discontented or resentful longing aroused by another's possessions, qualities, or luck.

■ (the envy of) a person or thing that inspires such a feeling.

▶verb (envies, envying, envied) feel envy of.

– derivatives
envier noun.

– origin ME (also in the sense ‘hostility’): from OFr. envie (n.), envier (v.), from L. invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’.

'envy' also found in these Oxford entries:

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