Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

possessionistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pos-ses-sion-is-tic
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to possessionism.

Example Sentences

"1995 Sebastian Rust, Re: 3D Dungeons and Dragons RPG MUD--Why the hell not???? Group: comp.sys.mac.games Am I being a bit too possessionistic about this? Well anyways, if it's not how -I- would've made it, you can bet on mine coming out by all means (guy reading this mutters "dreamer...") Oh yeah? Just WATCH me!"
"All this effort at aligning the revolution of reaffirmation with Andhradesa need neither be construed adventuristic or possessionistic."
"Secondly, his attempts to show that the possessionistic Christology he is proposing is the earliest Christology lacks support on two grounds: (i) there is no evidence that Paul disagreed with his opponents on matters of Christology"

Etymology

From possession + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: possession

Inflected Forms

more possessionistic (comparative) most possessionistic (superlative)

Questions

What does possessionistic mean?: Pertaining to possessionism.
Where does possessionistic come from?: From possession + -istic.

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