Usually means: Desire to control someone's freedom.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. possessiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. possessiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. possessiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. possessiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. possessiveness: Wordnik
  6. possessiveness: Wiktionary
  7. possessiveness: Dictionary.com
  8. possessiveness: Rhymezone
  9. possessiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. possessiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. possessiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. possessiveness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being possessive

Similar:
possessivity, possessoriness, possessingness, possessedness, obsessionality, prepossessingness, ownedness, obsessiveness, obsession, prepossessedness, more...

Opposite:
generosity, selflessness, altruism

Adjectives:
sexual, fierce, jealous, non, such, extreme, male, maternal, own, intense, parental

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Similar:
possessivity, possessoriness, possessingness, possessedness, obsessionality, prepossessingness, ownedness, obsessiveness, obsession, prepossessedness, more...

Opposite:
generosity, selflessness, altruism

Adjectives:
sexual, fierce, jealous, non, such, extreme, male, maternal, own, intense, parental



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