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Noun possession has 7 senses
- possession, ownership - the act of having and controlling property
--1 is a kind of control
--1 has particulars:
- possession - anything owned or possessed
--2 has particulars:
- possession - being controlled by passion or the supernatural
--3 is a kind of enchantment, spell, trance
- monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea
--4 is a kind of mania, passion, cacoethes
- possession - a territory that is controllled by a ruling state
--5 is a kind of district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
--5 has particulars:
- self-control, self-possession, possession, willpower, self-command, self-will - the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
--6 is a kind of resoluteness, firmness, resolve, resolution
--6 has particulars: nerves; presence of mind
- possession - (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck); "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"
--7 is a kind of control
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