Appendix 4: Common Manifestations of Self: Character Defects - Envy

This is one in a series of tables featuring the main character defects discussed in PTP Step 4. For accompanying tables of defective emotions, see Appendix 3 on this site. The tables are intended to help us take inventory using the guides to Inventory Type A and/or B. For a post on envy on this website, please click on link.


Envy

Definition

A comparative and competitive concern to attain the personal worth we perceive others possess but we lack and a consequent desire for it to be diminished or lost and for them to fail and be brought down. 

Related
Terms &
Defects

Backbiting, begrudge, covet, eat one’s heart out, evil eye, grudge, grudging, heartburn, ill will, invidious, lusting, malice, resentfulness, spite

Corrective 
Character
Virtues

Gratitude, humility

For other character defects, please click on the appropriate link: Dishonesty, Greed, Narrow-mindedness, Pride, Sloth

For appendix 1, 2, or 3, please click on its link.