Jealousy or envy?

Most people confuse jealousy to envy but it is wrong to think that those feelings are of the same nature. Moreover, there is a few in common between those. It is true that sometimes people use those words as synonyms but they do it for their own purposes and if take a good look to both those phenomena it will become clear that there is a great difference between them.

First of all it is important to realize or to find out the definition of those both words. So, according to explanatory dictionary jealousy it is when one feels that there are people who can take away something he or she loves. In most cases it is about love between people. It is about love between man and woman in most cases but it may also be about love between parents and children and so on and so forth.

So, when one is jealous it means that this one feels that there are people who want to have something precious he or she has and so he or she become jealous about that something. Though, things are different when talking about envy. The envious people never afraid of other people want to have something they have, but they are those people who want to have something other people have.

As you can see there is a difference between those to meanings and between those two phenomena and so there is no way for one to confuse them. Sure, there is something in common and that something is a destructive action of both phenomena. Both of them are able to break anything people have.