Possessiveness [noun]
Definition of Possessiveness:
affection, high regard
Synonyms of Possessiveness:
● Friendship
● Affinity
● Loyalty
● Devotion
● Case
● Shine
● Love
● Hankering
● Yen
● Weakness
● Regard
● Partiality
● Crush
● Tenderness
● Attraction
● Liking
● Fidelity
● Fondness
● Bond
● Amore
Opposite/Antonyms of Possessiveness:
● Opposition
● Estrangement
● Enmity
● Divorce
● Aversion
● Animosity
● Alienation
● Hate
● Dislike
● Hatred
Sentence/Example of Possessiveness:
Of course, she was not for him—not with that possessiveness.
He was overwhelmed by the possessiveness of the awful thing.
Exaggerations of possessiveness in the individual are parallel and of a piece with the clutching greed of nations and emperors.
For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?
Anger, defiance, pride and possessiveness supply the motives of their songs.
In the few mad hours of their association they had come to belong to each other with a possessiveness that was beyond words.
Its chief characteristic is its possessiveness: the words "gain" and "profit" suggest this.
I had all the while been conscious of something abnormal in his attitude—a lack of ease in his gross possessiveness.