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possessionism en · NOUN

Etymology

From possession + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The tendency to expand one's ownership of property without regard for its ethical implications.
    • The Pastorals are defending Pauline incarnational christology against Jewish Christian myths justifying possessionism 1995, M. D. Goulder, St. Paul Versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions, page 119:
    • […] racial theories and the unprecedented increase in colonial expansionism and territorial possessionism, as exemplified by Britain's “imperial century,” […] 2014, John Ernest, The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative:
    • They're always viewed in relation to American suburbanism, possessionism, commodityism, or copism. 2009, Manny Farber, Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies, page 370:
    • Possessionism in wreck diving regard can be characterized generally as the compulsive collection of artifacts 1998, Gary Gentile, The Lusitania Controversies: Atrocity of War and a Wreck-Diving History, page 222:

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