territoriality

IPA: tɛrɪtˈɔriʌɫɪti

The fact or legal status of being a territory.
(zoology) The pattern of behaviour in animals that defines and defends a territory.
A pattern of human behaviour characterised by defence of a particular territory or area of interest.

Examples of "territoriality" in Sentences

Viz., it appears that territoriality is an issue after all.
Brachman said expansion of state land-use authority can incite "territoriality" among municipalities.
Greater interdependence means that territoriality is no longer entitled to the hold it has had over the private international law of IP.
McLaughlin said he does not believe it is an issue of "territoriality" since most of the War Memorial patients come primarily from Morgan County.
Too often, federal and state government agencies operate on their own, territoriality is perpetuated and the agencies don't connect the dots between one another.
It was a landmark document based on the International Labor Organization's Resolution 169, the universally accepted benchmark for defining an indigenous people stipulating they have both territory or habitat and "territoriality" meaning they have autonomy over their own lands free from government control.
One popular but now outdated theory is that the brain has three parts: the reptilian brain, which includes the structures and functions we share with reptiles such as territoriality; the paleomammalian brain, a group of related structures that manages social emotions and behaviors like nurturing or reciprocity in all mammals; and the neocortex, which manages evaluation and reasoning in the most complex mammals, especially humans.