Thesaurus / possessiveness
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synonyms for possessiveness
- affinity
- devotion
- friendship
- loyalty
- attraction
- bond
- case
- crush
- fidelity
- fondness
- hankering
- liking
- love
- partiality
- regard
- shine
- tenderness
- weakness
- yen
- amore
- acquisitiveness
- avarice
- avariciousness
- avidity
- covetousness
- craving
- eagerness
- greediness
- hunger
- infatuation
- itching
- longing
- lust
- passion
- rapaciousness
- rapacity
- voracity
- yearning
- graspingness
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How to use possessiveness in a sentence
A moment later his other hand was taken, with grim possessiveness, by the child.
THE SYNDICC.M. KORNBLUTHIn the few mad hours of their association they had come to belong to each other with a possessiveness that was beyond words.
ASTOUNDING STORIES, JUNE, 1931VARIOUSThe elaborate care with which he tucked the robe about her Ladyship had a distinct air of alert possessiveness.
THE KINGDOM ROUND THE CORNERCONINGSBY DAWSONI had all the while been conscious of something abnormal in his attitude—a lack of ease in his gross possessiveness.
SEVEN MENMAX BEERBOHMIts chief characteristic is its possessiveness: the words "gain" and "profit" suggest this.
THE PURSUIT OF GODA. W. TOZEROf course, she was not for him—not with that possessiveness.
THE SEARCHGRACE LIVINGSTON HILLHe was overwhelmed by the possessiveness of the awful thing.
AT THE CROSSROADSHARRIET T. COMSTOCKAnger, defiance, pride and possessiveness supply the motives of their songs.
BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLANDPHIL (PHILIP STEWART) ROBINSONWinnie's eyes, with soft, hostile possessiveness, fastened themselves on her little girl's face.
THE NARROW HOUSEEVELYN SCOTTFor effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?
THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINOREJACK LONDONWORDS RELATED TO POSSESSIVENESS
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.