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The answer ENVIABLE has 26 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of enviable in various dictionaries:
adj - causing envy
adv - desirable [ adj ] : ENVIABLY
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So desirable as to arouse envy: "the enviable English quality of being able to be mute without unrest ( Henry James). |
arousing or likely to arouse envy. |
causing envy |
Arousing or likely to arouse envy. |
If someone is in an enviable situation, you wish you were also in that situation: |
(esp. of a quality or advantage) causing you to wish that you also possessed it desirable: |
Enviable might refer to |
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Envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it".Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. Not only is the envious person rendered unhappy by his or her envy, Russell explained, but that person also wishes to inflict misfortune on others. Although envy is generally seen as something negative, Russell also believed that envy was a driving force behind the movement towards democracy and must be endured to achieve a more just social system. However, psychologists have recently suggested that there may be two types of envy: malicious envy and benign envymalicious envy being proposed as a sick force that ruins a person and his/her mind and causes the envious person to blindly want the "hero" to suffer; on the other hand, benign envy being proposed as a type of positive motivational force that causes the person to as |