Envy

Envy Envy The Oxford definition of envy is a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by another’s better fortune (Allen 392). The focus of the seven deadly sins is based on religious thought. Envy is defined religiously as” thou shall not covet.” According to the Roman Catholic catechisms envy is considered a “venial” sin, but it would need to be confessed. Thus, if an individual commits a venial sin and does not confess, one would have to spend time in purgatory before entering heaven (Matusiak). Kevin J. Rice states that the Methodist position that envy is an emotion and that it is the feeling of glee that a person has. Accordingly the individual does not envy an object but envies the people who use the object. One instance would be,” I am not envious of a Corvette; I am envious of a person who owns a Corvette because I would like the emotions of glee, power, and speed that come with driving it” (Rice). Analyzing the word origin, the term envy is the Latin word invidere, which meant to look at askance or to see with malice. envy, nations, word, thought, sin, century, am, venial, upon, time, thus, theory, states, sigmund, roman, rice, power, position, person, one, object, latin, individual, glee, feeling, envious, defined, corvette, based, zevin, younger, world, wisdom, western, wear