[LMB] OT: Looking for a word

[Mark Allums]

Bear Master wrote:
> I hope you don't mind.  With so many intelligent people here, many of them
> wordsmiths, I'm sure you can help me.  
> 
> I am sure there is a name for the emotion that accompanies that sudden
> reversal, the "I want it!  I have it!  I don't want it anymore!"  But for
> the life of me I cannot think of it!  It isn't averace, it's probably a
> subclass of envy, related to resentment and *Gluckschmerz*, but none of
> those are it.  Spite comes closest, but even that's more giving something up
> to deprive it to others than no longer wanting what you have because someone
> has something better.

In that same situation, I would feel frustration.  For working so hard 
and then finding out that I missed out on the good stuff.

--Mark Allums