possession

Other forms of possession

plural

possessions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about possession

What does possession mean?

possession means "the act of having and controlling property". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in possession?

possession has 3 syllables: pos-ses-sion. The stress falls on "ses". In IPA it is /pəˈzɛʃən/.

What is another word for possession?

Close synonyms include ownership, monomania, self-control, self-possession, willpower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is possession a common word?

possession is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with possession?

1 word rhymes with possession. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.