possessivity

Noun

possessivity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being possessive (indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.).

   Synonyms:

   possessiveness

2. (rare) The quality of being possessive (unwilling to yield possession).
   • And yet there is this June, this damned Jewish vulture gnawing into my vitals whether I want it or not—first with her possessivity, her jealousy, her overwhelming sex and clawing beak, and now with hatred and malice and vindictiveness.1933 May 19, Henry Miller, “Quiet Days in Clichy: 1932–33”, in George Wickes, editor, Letters to Emil, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 121
   • If the erotic ambiguity of such figures is to be attributed both to the ambiguity of the painter’s desires (always fighting between unconscious erotical fancies, developed to the point of rape (The abandoned, 1964, and Oedipical idealization, I have dealt with previously) and to the ambiguity of...1979, Terzoocchio, volumes 5–7, Bologna: Edizioni Bora, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   possessiveness