📚 Envy, verb.

❓ Definition (with object): Desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else).

❗️ Examples:

🎈🎈🎈 He envied people who did not have to work at the weekends.

🎈🎈🎈 I envy Jane her happiness.

🎈🎈🎈 She imagined her home even lovelier than it was now, and she imagined everyone admiring her, envying her, wishing they, too, had such a gift.

🎈🎈🎈 You must mark out your territory as an artist, so that others learn to envy you and aspire to what you are doing.

🎈🎈🎈 Borges' characters can similarly be said to envy women their desire that they cannot understand and do not dare explore.