Found 2 items, similar to Enviousness.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: enviousness enviousness n : a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another [syn: envy, the green-eyed monster ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Enviousness Envious \En"vi*ous\, a. [OF. envios, F. envieux, fr. L. invidiosus, fr. invidia envy. See Envy, and cf. Invidious.] 1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. [1913 Webster] My soul is envious of mine eye. --Keble. [1913 Webster] Neither be thou envious at the wicked. --Prov. xxiv. 19. [1913 Webster] 3. Inspiring envy. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster] He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. Excessively careful; cautious. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No men are so envious of their health. --Jer. Taylor. -- En"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- En"vi*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]