Possessivity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Possessivity is a noun meaning (grammar) The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.).
Meaning
(grammar) The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.).
More Meanings
- (rare) The quality of being possessive (unwilling to yield possession).
Example Sentences
His possessivity is just another form of his unrelentless love, that he wants to offer me.
And yet there is this June, this damned Jewish vulture gnawing into my vitals whether I want it or not—first with her possessivity, her jealousy, her overwhelming sex and clawing beak, and now with hatred and malice and vindictiveness.
Pietrangeli’s Andrea takes Crommelynck’s Bruno a step further in the psychological exploration of envy through Andrea’s projection of his guilt onto and his possessivity toward Maria Grazia in a crisis of the visual and auditory registers that only cinema can represent in its devastating and provocative fullness.
Synonyms for possessivity
Depending on context, synonyms include possessiveness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include possessoriness, possessingness, possessiveness, possessorship, possessedness, ownedness.
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