Possessivity

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(grammar) The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (grammar) The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.).
2. (rare) The quality of being possessive (unwilling to yield possession).

Example Sentences

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.

If the erotic ambiguity of such figures is to be attributed both to the ambiguity of the painter’s desires (always fighting between unconscious erotical fancies, developed to the point of rape (The abandoned, 1964, and Oedipical idealization, I have dealt with previously) and to the ambiguity of his mother’s behaviour (who during her life denied herself physically, but substancially^([sic]) gave herself through her possessivity and the charms of her interested misogyny, handed over to her son and representing a form of lover’s jealousy).

His possessivity is just another form of his unrelentless love, that he wants to offer me.

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.

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