What's the difference between Envy and Jealousy?

Answer 1

Jealousy includes alot of things that make it ugly,like anger,revenge,backstabbing, it motivates bad behavior. Envy is just when you wish you had something someone else has,but you leave it that,and there are no bad feelings that go with it. They are 2 very different meanings.

Answer 2

Envy is common...we can envy someone's situation while still liking them as people. Jealousy on the other hand is more toxic. People who are jealous of others tend to dislike them because they can't have or be in the situation that person is in..

Answer 3

Envy - wanting what somebody else has: the resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting somebody else's success, good fortune, qualities, or possessions

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861608729

Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions); as distinct from jealousy.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Envy

Jealousy:

earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover.

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=jealousy

resentment at being (or believing that one is or may be) supplanted or preferred in the love or affection of another, or in the enjoyment of some good regarded as properly one's own. Jealousy is really a form of envy, but implies a feeling of personal claim which in envy or covetousness is wanting.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Jealousy

Answer 4

Envy is connected with all bad feeling while jealousy can be with good feelings,too......

Answer 5

easy...jealousy is more childish and greedy while envy is more mature and a much more classy way of being jealous--i don't know if i helped you but i believe this to be the correct interpetation of the two terms

Answer 6

same thing