Jealousy is an emotion which most of us are reluctant to admit to but which all of us experience from time to time. We might envy someone else for their possessions or ability or luck, yet it is when we are upset or angry that they have something we want, or something we believe we are entitled to, or even something we think they think they might want to take away from us, that we feel jealousy. This is what leads Peter Toohey to suggest that envy is dyadic and jealousy is an emotion that comes in threes. Both envy and jealousy can take the form of schadenfreude (gloating in a rival or a friend's misfortune), and both envy and jealousy do not need to be sexual, although they often are.
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