possessiveness Definition
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possessive
adj
- 1. Relating to possession.
2. Said of a person or of character: unwilling to share, or allow others to use, things they own.
- Example: I'm very possessive about my car
- Thesaurus: selfish, covetous, jealous, proprietorial, acquisitive, grasping: Antonym: generous, sharing.
- Example: a possessive husband
- Thesaurus: selfish, covetous, jealous, domineering, dominating, clinging, overprotective.
- Denoting the form or case of a noun, pronoun or adjective which shows possession, eg Kurt's, its, her.
- 1. The possessive form or case of a word.
2. A word in the possessive case or in a possessive form. Compare genitive.
adverb
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