Synonyms for POSSESSED
pəˈzɛstpos·sessed

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1. obsessed, possessed(p)adjective

   influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion

   "by love possessed"

   Antonyms:
   uncontrolled, sane

2. amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)adjective

   frenzied as if possessed by a demon

   "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"

   Antonyms:
   uncontrolled, sane

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1. List of paraphrases for "possessed":

   owned, possesses, owns, possession, possess, had

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1. Anais Nin:

   If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

2. The Talmud:

   If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.

3. Bryan Miller:

   These elite women possessed the materials not only for displaying their status( e.g., belts and necklaces) but also for enacting power, such as prestigious wares for hosting politicized feasts, they were highly venerated with ample offerings from all those who attended their funerals, demonstrating their continued social importance within their communities throughout their lives.

4. Simon Shaw:

   Modigliani creates a new kind of nude for the modern era, typically there's been a distance between the viewer of a nude and the way that the nude is represented. Here Modigliani puts them on a level. If you look at her gaze, the way she is meeting yours, she is very erotic, but she's very confident, she's very self-possessed in her sexuality, and that's something incredibly new.

5. Sara Teasdale:

   No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.