Possessive comes from Latin possessivus, and is what havefeeling or desire for possession by someone or something.
The word possessive is a masculine adjective, as in "possessive man". And also a noun, as in "he is possessive". The two examples have the same meaning, only with different constructions from a grammatical point of view.
Possessive in English is possessive.
In Spanish, possessive is possessive.
A possessive individual is one who believes that he owns something. Possession is often related to a person, which makes possessiveness dangerous in the sense of limiting the freedom of another human being.
O possessive jealousy it is the manifestation of the feeling of ownership and exclusivity in relation to another person. Usually associated with love relationships. A jealous boyfriend, or a wife who is possessive jealousy, are people who consider owning someone else's property.
An example of possessive jealousy is contained in the phrase: "she's my wife and I don't let her go out in that short skirt". In this case, the possessive believes that he can hinder his partner's freedom under the pretext of property, and out of jealousy that men can look at her. The argument is reinforced with the use of the possessive pronoun mine.
Possessive pronoun
The possessive pronoun is a grammatical class of words that relate the property of objects to subjects.
They are possessive pronouns: mine / mine, yours / yours, his / hers, ours / ours, yours / yours, mine / mine, yours / yours, his / yours, our / ours, yours / yours.
Synonyms for Possessive
- attached
- Jealous
- Selfish