possessiveness

Example Sentences

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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

For what it's worth, Harry pledges to let go of possessiveness.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023

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

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

She had some of her Aunt Evy’s talent for mimicking, some of Ruthie Nolan’s possessiveness.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith