id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3548 Envy - Wikipedia .html text/html 6892 1048 68 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".[1] Psychologists have suggested that real or malicious envy should be distinguished from "benign envy"—malicious envy being proposed as an unpleasant emotion that causes the envious person to want to bring down the better-off even at their own cost, while benign envy involves recognition of other's being better-off, but causes the person to aspire to be as good.[4][5] However, Sherry Turkle considers that the advent of social media and selfie culture is creating an alienating sense of "self-envy" psyche in users, and posits this further affects problem areas attached to attachments.[6] Envy and gloating have parallel structures as emotions.[7][8] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3548.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3548.txt