Possession vs Worldhood - What's the difference?
possession | worldhood |
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.
(rare) A worldly possession.
*1841 , Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of literature :
The state or condition of the world; worldliness.
*1992 , Robert S. Corrington, Nature and spirit: an essay in ecstatic naturalism :
*2005 , Stephen Mulhall, Routledge philosophy guidebook to Heidegger and Being and time :
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)- 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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English
Noun
(en noun)- Follow no more this vein, but content yourselves with what you have already, or else seek honest means whereby to increase your worldhoods .
- It makes sense to speak of numerous horizons of meaning, but not of numerous worldhoods .
- 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.