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envy  

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  • Envy is a negative, unpleasant, and often-painful emotion that is elicited by comparison with another person or group that has something that one either desires or wishes that the others lacked. This might include an attribute, a possession, a social position, an achievement, luck, or quality of being. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Envy]

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