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
According to Sure, Porter warned him about Combs, advising Sure to stay out of Quincy’s life because of Combs’ alleged possessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
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
He touches her shoulder with a possessiveness in his eyes that I don’t like.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
