possessiveness

Example Sentences

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Quickly, Karsh’s love turns to possessiveness, and everyone around him becomes a suspect.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

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

In contrast to the spirit of cooperation required for a successful recovery effort, Collar wrote in 1992, “ownership is a matter of jealousy, prestige and possessiveness that is fundamentally different in psychological origin.”

From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022

Whether her thin-skinned possessiveness is new, new to you, or well-established, you do have some options for dealing with it:

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2022

Suspicion and fear: possessiveness and greed: resentment for ancestral wrong: all these seemed to be a part of it.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White