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1. The act of having and controlling property
   - ownership
    
2. Anything owned or possessed
    
3. Being controlled by passion or the supernatural
    
4. A mania restricted to one thing or idea
   - monomania
    
5. A territory that is controlled by a ruling state
    
6. The trait of resolutely controlling your own behaviour
   - self-control, self-possession, willpower, will power, self-command, self-will
    
7. (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck)
   "they took possession of the ball on their own goal line"

Derived forms: possessions

See also: possess

Type of: cacoethes, control, district, dominion, enchantment, firmness, firmness of purpose, mania, passion, relation, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, spell, territorial dominion, territory, trance

Encyclopedia: Possession Possession, Demonical