Possession vs Absence - What's the difference?
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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.
* (rfdate) (w) 2:12
Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.
* (rfdate) - Kent
Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.
Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).
* (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)
(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.
(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.
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As nouns the difference between possession and absence
is that possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights while absence is a state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away .As a verb possession
is (obsolete) to invest with property.possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.
Usage notes
* One who possesses is often said to have possession (of)'', ''hold possession (of)'', or ''be in possession (of) . * One who acquires is often said to take possession (of)'', ''gain possession (of)'', or ''come into possession (of) .Synonyms
* ight (obsolete) * owndom, retention * See alsoAntonyms
* absenceStatistics
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .
- In the absence of conventional law.
- Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.
- To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .