## Meanings
1. A feeling of wanting something that someone else has.
2. To wish you had what someone else has.
3. A person or thing that other people admire and wish they had.

## Examples
- She looked at her friend's new car with envy.
- I envy you for living so close to the beach.
- Their beautiful garden was the envy of the whole street.

## Antonyms
- kindness

## Derived Forms
- envious
- envy-free
- envyful
- envyingly
- envysome
- unenvying

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *weyd-
- Root: envie
- Root: invidia

## Etymology
Etymology tree Old French enviebor. Middle English envie English envy From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”). Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ.

## AI Etymology
Envy comes from Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”). Displaced native Old English æfest and Old English nīþ. In current use, the main senses are “A feeling of wanting something that someone else has” and “To wish you had what someone else has”.

## Topics
- Emotions & Feelings

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