Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
possessive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun excessive desire to possess or dominate
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Examples
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For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?
CHAPTER XV 2010
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For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?
Chapter 15 1914
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Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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Sometimes, she wondered if his possessiveness was the same that he might extend toward a horse or a rifle.
Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995
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Sometimes, she wondered if his possessiveness was the same that he might extend toward a horse or a rifle.
Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995
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Sometimes, she wondered if his possessiveness was the same that he might extend toward a horse or a rifle.
Sweet Defiance Lisa Bingham 1995
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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 2007
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