Possessiveness

Synonyms for "possessiveness" (25 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Noun(3 words)
attachment anxietyclinginesscontrolling tendency

Strong matches (8)

Noun(2 words)
genitive markingownership

Related words (12)

Noun(5 words)
possessionpossession markingpossessive constructionpossessive formproperty rights

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

7 entries
affective traitgrammatical categorygreedmorphosyntactic featureownershippersonality traitproperty rights

More specific

6 entries
clinginesscontrolling tendencyhousehold ownershiplandownershippossessive pronounpossessive suffix

Collocations

6 entries
cultural possessivenessfamily possessivenesspossessiveness scalepossessiveness traitrelationship possessivenessromantic possessiveness

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Yanni hated Skura's possessiveness.

Source: tatoeba (9725611)

That was the first time Rima noticed Ziri's possessiveness.

Source: tatoeba (10918695)

I need space to breathe and grow, not possessiveness.

Source: tatoeba (13200715)

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