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Possession vs Worldhood - What's the difference?

possession | worldhood |

As nouns the difference between possession and worldhood

is that possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights while worldhood is (rare) a worldly possession.

As a verb possession

is (obsolete) to invest with property.

possession

English

Noun

(wikipedia possession) (en noun)
  • Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
  • Something that is owned.
  • The car quickly became his most prized possession .
    I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
  • Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
  • The car is in my possession .
    I'm in possession of the car.
  • A territory under the rule of another country.
  • Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
  • The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
  • Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
  • * Shakespeare
  • How long hath this possession held the man?
  • (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
  • The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.}}
  • (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
  • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * absence

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To invest with property.
  • (Webster 1913)

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    worldhood

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A worldly possession.
  • *1841 , Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature :
  • Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods .
  • The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
  • *1992 , Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism :
  • It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods .
  • *2005 , Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time :
  • The worldhood of the world is not comprehensible in the terms developed by speculative reason for the comprehension of present-at-hand objects and their properties.