# jeallousy and envy

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 10, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982 "2001-05-10T12:03:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![SolarPhallusMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SolarPhallusMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolarPhallusMan)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/1 "2001-05-10T12:03:35Z")

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What makes you jeallous and envious? Also, which gender is the more jeallous/envious?

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/2 "2001-05-10T12:05:32Z")

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Also, where is the General Question?

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/3 "2001-05-10T13:07:54Z")

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> \*Originally posted by SolarPhallusMan \*  
> \*\*What makes you jeallous and envious? Also, which gender is the more jeallous/envious? \*\*

Well, I’m certainly not _envious_ of your spelling ability. 😉

Now, if you were asking what the difference was between jealousy and envy, I’d answer.

But you didn’t. 😃

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**Author:** ![SolarPhallusMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SolarPhallusMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolarPhallusMan)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/4 "2001-05-10T13:14:04Z")

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I wasn’t asking opinions of the difference between the two–just what triggers such feelings.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/5 "2001-05-10T13:57:31Z")

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Here is a start, although they don’t make as much of a distinction between jealousy and envy as I would think there should be.

[http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap10/chap10k.htm](http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap10/chap10k.htm)

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeallousy-and-envy/64982/6 "2001-05-10T15:03:23Z")

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I’d probably be happy with the dictionary definitions of these words but often they are confused in usage & people say ‘jealous’ when they mean ‘envy’.