[
UK
/pəzˈɛsɪvnəs/
]
[ US /pəˈzɛsɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /pəˈzɛsɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
- excessive desire to possess or dominate
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, 196583
- 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.