Etymograph

English

enviousness

From envious + -ness.

A compound of envious + -ness

Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ‘to see’

Latin invidiōsus ‘envious, invidious, hostile’

Old French envieus

Anglo-Norman envious

Middle English envious ‘envious (having envy)’

English envious

Today it means

noun The state of being envious.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / enviousness