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envy-scroll

envy-scroll is the alternative spelling of envyscroll.

Meaning of envyscroll

Verb

envyscroll (third-person singular simple present envyscrolls, present participle envyscrolling, simple past and past participle envyscrolled)

  1. To continually read Internet presentations of people’s accomplishment and thereby gain the impression of being inadequate.
    • Getting in touch with the thoughts and feelings driving compulsions toward hate-scrolling, doomscrolling, or what I’ll call “envy-scrolling” across social media and news platforms is the first step.2020 March 20, Kenneth R. Rosen, “How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology”, in Wired

Forms of envy-scroll

third-person singular presentenvy-scrolls
present participleenvy-scrolling
past participleenvy-scrolled
pastenvy-scrolled

Questions about envy-scroll

What is envy-scroll the alternative spelling of?
Envy-scroll is the alternative spelling of envyscroll.

Words near envy-scroll in the dictionary

  1. envoyships
  2. Envtl.
  3. envy
  4. envy scrolling
  5. envy-free
  6. envy-scroll
  7. envy-scrolling
  8. envyed
  9. envyfree
  10. envyfreeness
  11. envyful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: envy-scroll (page history and authors); envyscroll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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