retentiveness
- 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
The error in the book first quoted from lies in the fact that its author looks upon a failing memory as indicating a loss of retentiveness.
From The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren
A Chinese classical scholar's memory is so trained for retentiveness that one who became a Christian was able, with ease, to commit to memory five chapters of the New Testament each day.
From The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow by Cable, Mildred
Sub-conscious memory, basis of future life, 156; consciously utilized, 161; in seed atom, 155; retentiveness of, 154.
From The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Heindel, Max
His mastery over figures in its firmness of grasp, its lightning-like rapidity, its retentiveness, is almost as great as that of a professional calculator.
From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.
