possessiveness
占有欲,占有欲强,占有欲强的人,占有欲强的
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Definitions
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- : jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- : desirous of possessing, especially excessively so: Young children are so possessive they will not allow others to play with their toys; a possessive lover.
- : of or relating to possession or ownership.
- : Grammar. indicating possession, ownership, origin, etc. His in his book is a possessive adjective. His in The book is his is a possessive pronoun. noting or pertaining to a case that indicates possession, ownership, origin, etc., as, in English, John's in John's hat.
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Grammar.
- : the possessive case.
- : a form in the possessive.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The costumes and settings are worthy of a full-length feature, and the creepy possessiveness of the song adds to the vignette.
But with the clarity of retrospect, it already showed signs of the possessiveness and jealousy that would follow years later.
Yet it is a dislike accompanied by a totalizing possessiveness.
A moment later his other hand was taken, with grim possessiveness, by the child.
In the few mad hours of their association they had come to belong to each other with a possessiveness that was beyond words.
The elaborate care with which he tucked the robe about her Ladyship had a distinct air of alert possessiveness.
I had all the while been conscious of something abnormal in his attitude—a lack of ease in his gross possessiveness.
Its chief characteristic is its possessiveness: the words "gain" and "profit" suggest this.