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overprotectiveness

n. The state or condition of being overprotective.

Usage examples of "overprotectiveness".

She could call it overprotectiveness if she wanted—and she undoubtedly was calling it exactly that—but after watching her do five days in a healing trance he much preferred to err on the side of caution.

Her second, somewhat irreverent thought was to note that Artoo had chosen her sentinel to attack instead of Luke's, and to wonder if the Skywalker tendency toward overprotectiveness had rubbed off on him.

She could call it overprotectiveness if she wantedand she undoubtedly was calling it exactly thatbut after watching her do five days in a healing trance he much preferred to err on the side of caution.

Eventually the dread that he, too, would disappear from her life had faded, but the pattern of overprotectiveness had been set.

In no uncertain terms, she had told him that while she was glad to have him back, she would not tolerate overprotectiveness in a husband any more than she would in a Noghri bodyguard - who was certainly much better at it.

Sophie flashed suddenly on her grandfather's overprotectiveness, how he never liked to leave her alone when she was young.