Is there a difference between envy and jealousy?
Although sometimes used synonymously, envy and jealousy have different meanings. Envy is the desire for something that someone else has, or a feeling of ill will over another person’s advantages in general: My envy of your success has made me bitter. Jealousy is a resentful suspicion that someone else has what rightfully belongs to the jealous person: Out of jealousy, he followed his wife. The favored treatment of the daughter created jealousy in the son.
