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the only sin that grants its sufferer zero pleasure, just a slow internal sunburn.
means Feeling discontented resentment toward someone because they have something — a quality, possession, or advantage — that you wish were yours.
from From Latin invidiosus, 'full of envy,' built on invidia, which itself comes from invidere — literally 'to look upon' (videre, to see) with an unkind in-. The Romans pictured envy as a hostile gaze, the evil eye made verbal: to envy was to look too hard, too sourly, at another's good fortune. It reached English through Old French envie.
- green origin
- Greeks blamed envy for sickly skin and bile.
- brain overlap
- Envy fires the same circuits as physical pain.
- schadenfreude payoff
- Rivals falling activates the brain's reward center.
- deadly company
- One of seven sins, the only joyless one.
- evil eye
- Half the planet still wards off envious stares.
cain and abel — biblical brothers where cain killed abel out of envy over god's favor, genesis 4
salieri and mozart — 18th century vienna composers where salieri resented mozart's superior talent and fame
stannis baratheon — game of thrones character consumed by envy of his brother robert's throne and legitimacy