possessiveness

How To Use possessiveness In A Sentence

• Possessiveness, jealousy, and protectiveness are high.
• Be advised they'll also be in no mood to tolerate even the slightest suggestion of possessiveness.
• but then the possessiveness and competition, ingrained in us from early childhood, from preschool even, is like a thorn in our side which pricks every time a foreigner is seen.
• Complications kick in, and previously contained feelings of jealousy, betrayal, insecurity and possessiveness threaten to overwhelm what had seemed a rather civilised arrangement.
• Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
• That leaves a nagging question: if Africa doesn't inspire a possessiveness in visiting Westerners, then what is it about China or East Asia in general that does inspire this possessiveness?
• He wanted especially to believe that he was in this case acting in a manner uncontaminated by public ambition or sexual possessiveness.
• The second is neurotic: everyone is liable to instinctive twinges of possessiveness, so lovers shouldn't rub each other's noses in adventures outside their patch.
• Some people like to dominate, some are submissive, some can handle possessiveness, for others it would drive them crazy.
• Anger, jealousy, possessiveness, suspicion, aggression - Harry experiences a whole gamut of human emotions, but seems to able to control them much better that he did in The Phoenix.