retentive
adjective
tending or serving to retain something.
retentiveness
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a word derived from
retentive.
Example Sentences
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But it's time we retire this notion of Wooden as basketball's wise old man and see his legacy for what it is: a triumph of rigidity, bureaucracy, paternalism, and anal retentiveness.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2010
Stevenson was always interested by his own retentiveness of memory for childish things, and here asks Cummy some questions to test the quality of hers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
She had become a legend and no one knew her exact age, she was creepin’ close to a hundred, and her memory which carried her back to the slave days was marvellous in its retentiveness.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
But the most remarkable thing through life was his memory, and its wonderful combination of retentiveness and readiness.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Robert Chambers
The distances between drains he showed must be regulated by the greater or less retentiveness of the ground operated upon, and gave 10 to 40 ft. as the limits of their distance apart.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
