envier

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A person who wants what someone else has and feels unhappy about it

noun
/ˈɛnviər/

: envidioso

An envier often feels resentful of others' success and happiness.

I'm going to show you how to detect the toxic people out there, the narcissist, the enviers, the passive aggressive aggressors.

Examples

I'm going to show you how to detect the toxic people out there, the narcissist, the enviers, the passive aggressive aggressors.

Robert Greene
Where are all the fatwa-enviers from earlier threads, who dared PZ to desecrate a Qu'ran, and sneered that he would not dare?

Blog text (4)
As a true envier, he couldn't hide his jealousy when he saw her promotion.
She realized that many of her friends were just enviers who didn't support her achievements.

Surface Forms

envier singular

enviers plural

Morphology

envier = envy (transparent) = envy + er

This is a regular agent noun meaning 'one who envies', built transparently from the verb 'envy' plus '-er'.

Etymology

The word envier comes from envy, which goes back to the Latin invidere and the root vid meaning 'to see', the same root as in vision. People once thought envy began as a 'bad look' at someone who had what you wanted, so an envier is a person who feels or shows that jealous feeling.