Jealous or Envious?

[Chriswood8]

What's the difference between JEALOUSY and ENVY?

[IndieSinger]

In their modern meanings, they are, of course, very closely linked. They both mean a longing for someone else's seemingly superior advantages. In fact I can't really think of anything to separate them - they can both be applied to both things and people and they both include a general malicious feeling of ill-will towards someone/~thing else. If anything, maybe jealousy is based more on aprehension and suspicion.

[landie]

I guess they're both related to covetting.

[Romeo]

I would say that you can envy a person but still like them and be friends with them, whereas jealousy is more bitter.  A person may feel envy for a friend or colleague's achievement while still feeling happy for them, but jealousy is a feeling of dislike or enmity.

[Romeo]

Also, there is the form of jealousy in a relationship, which is really a kind of possessiveness.  This kind of jealousy is different from envy.

[landie]

I'm not sure that possessiveness is the same as jealousy. It infers that you already have the object of your desires rather than a lusting after it or shallow resentment because someone else has.

[Octavius]

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