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Name Envy
Gender Feminine & Masculine
Usage Popular Culture, Literature
Pronounced Pron. N-V(Popular Culture)
Other Forms FormsEnvie
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Meaning & History
Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’) from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’.