Something so desirable that other people wish they had it.
From Old French 'enviable,' derived from 'envier' (to envy), from Latin 'invidere' (to look at with envy). The root literally means 'to look evil at' something.
The Latin root for envy literally means 'to look evil at'—and psychologists found that envious people actually have different facial expressions and eye behavior, showing that this ancient language captured something physically real about how jealousy changes our faces.
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