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Plural of envy

regular plural

The plural of envy is envies.

Forms of envy

Singularenvy /ˈɛnvi/
Pluralenvies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Envies in a sentence

  • He became familiar with that habit of mind which dispraises what it most envies and admires: with that habit of mind which desires only what it cannot have.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 157. From the entry dispraise

Meaning of envy

  1. noun Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
  2. noun An object of envious notice or feeling.
  3. noun Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.

Full definition of envy

Questions about the plural of envy

What is the plural of envy?
The plural of envy is envies.
Is envy countable?
Envy is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: envy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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