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• n  excessive desire to possess or dominate

• It's a question of whether or not you're going to be scared by all this ethnic awareness and possessiveness into writing about nothing but septuagenarian, Eastern-born Lutherans.
• He loves his 14-year-old daughter (a lovely duckling named Molly Ringwald) without quite understanding his paternal possessiveness of her.
• Complicating this is the possessiveness felt by hardcore Watchmaniacs, who believe that any change is an act of treason.

News & Articles

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• Mahendra Trivedi Provides in-Depth Understanding of Possessiveness, Controlling, and Caring
  Mr. Mahendra Trivedi delivered a significant insight on "Possessiveness, Controlling, and Caring" and how these factors have an impact on the journey towards transformation, during the MEP (Monthly Enhancement Program) Call on October 25, 2013. (PRWeb October 28, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11272807.htm
  Oct. 28, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• George Lucas in KTVU.com
  It really had to do with greed and the flip side of greed, which is possessiveness,Lucas said. "If you're a Jedi, you can't have possessiveness. You can love people, you can care about people, but you can't hold on to them. As a result,...
• Jean-Paul Sartre in Taipei Times
  To have such freedom, we had to suppress or overcome any possessiveness, any tendency to be jealous,said Sartre. "In other words, passion. To be free, you cannot be passionate."