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Downhill Envy 

The phenomenon that outdoor runners may experience wherein one runner, while tackling a particularly daunting incline, crosses paths with a runner enjoying the downhill while traveling in the opposite direction. The uphill runner might inwardly direct strong feelings of jealousy toward the downhill runner's good fortune that can only come during the exhaustion and red-faced all-out effort of a literal uphill battle. This is downhill envy. In special circumstances, such as those in which the downhill runner offers audible or visual expressions of encouragement or solidarity, downhill envy may even manifest in the uphill runner's outward utterance of disdain at the downhill runner's perceived condescension.

See also: Uphill Empathy, the sister term of Downhill Envy
Friend: Hey, how was your run?
Runner: I've had better. I was trying to haul ass up this one particularly vicious incline, but it was a serious struggle. What made it worse was this guy happily bounding down the hill in the opposite direction.
Friend: Damn. Downhill envy.

Runner: Mmm hmm.
Downhill Envy by oversmashed July 22, 2014
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Donut envy 

The act of not envying a donut 🍩
I donut envy you
Donut envy by Princess🎀 May 14, 2015

travel envy 

The envy and jealousy one feels watching travel channel hosts go around the world to beautiful, exciting destinations and you're stuck at home on the couch. travel, travel channel, destination, exotic locations, women, rich, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, baller, Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Samantha Brown, world traveler
I got major travel envy every time I see the Hawaiian Islands on that travel network. I must keep saving, so I can go before I die.
travel envy by joecoolthefool June 13, 2016

virtue envy 

A sense of unease that arises when another person in your circle appears more progressive, inclusive and ostentatiously virtuous than you. The endgame of virtue signaling.
Sally: "Human Resources gave us rainbow stickers to put on our folders, but Bob put his on his office door to signal his total inclusiveness. I wish I'd thought of that first!"
Martin: "You've got a bad case of virtue envy."

Lookout Envy

Stinging ping of failure that the bands from the 90's Wave of "Lookout! Records" Pop Punk bands express, at their loss of fame, compared to the success of acts like Green Day and Rancid, while continuing to propagate the facade that they are legitimate and valid "rock stars".
While watching the Trump rally today on FOX, Green Day came on during a Pepsi commercial, and Ben spent the rest of the day pining with "Lookout Envy.""
Lookout Envy by BlagThePedo August 27, 2019

Valor envy

The yearning for a noble cause to fight for, resulting from growing up in a generation spoiled by first-world luxuries, and thus filling the absence of real existential threats and social injustices with imagined ones, typically naming them after history's most notorious evils, racism and Nazism, and desperately trying to identify oneself with the same righteousness as those who fought actual evil.
Antifa hooligans like to pretend they're revolutionaries, but really they're just spoiled brats with valor envy.
Valor envy by JokeFace June 19, 2020

user envy 

It means absolute rage for the player when he kicks his pc and throws it out the window.
That guy is experiencing user envy.
user envy by HarryPotter75687 November 25, 2020