possessiveness

[ UK /pəzˈɛsɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /pəˈzɛsɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. excessive desire to possess or dominate
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How To Use possessiveness In A Sentence

  • Sometimes, she wondered if his possessiveness was the same that he might extend toward a horse or a rifle. Sweet Defiance
  • The continued insistence that women like Ewing should reexamine their feelings of "possessiveness," rather than question the sexual-revolutionary principle of nonpossession, meant that the full depth of women's suffering remained nearly invisible, even to its witnesses. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
  • There will be an instant mutual sexual attraction, equal in force between them. But Leo finds it hard to cope with Scorpio's jealousy and possessiveness.
  • Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness?
  • She wanted to overcome anger, possessiveness and jealousy.
  • For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman? CHAPTER XV
  • I could put up with his outbursts, the jealousy and possessiveness but not the violence.
  • There are also English-specific grammar tags associated with the name. These tags indicate possessiveness, reflexiveness and whether the viewer is viewing his or her own profile.
  • But there are limits to possessiveness, productively, which is why I chose to make that verbal correction. August « 2009 « Attempting Elegance
  • I've ruined every relationship with my possessiveness.
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