possessiveness
- a word derived from possessive.
Example Sentences
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"If you don't like it, just don't go for it or follow it. Why the possessiveness over other people's wallets?" someone wrote on Weibo.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
When an aspect of your culture becomes ubiquitous in the mainstream, no matter who you are, I think it’s natural to feel a little possessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Yearning, possessiveness, jealousy, deception, self-torture, the impossibility of truly knowing another person — these turn out to be the unhappy and recurrent elements of Proustian love.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022
Viewers accused Ms. Bond of selling out and expressed a startling degree of possessiveness over her life.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2022
As they walked on, his hand remained on her elbow with a new possessiveness.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
