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
Several times, with that uncanny retentiveness of memory developed in the blind, she had all but caught him; but each time his adroitness saved the day.
From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Receptivity and retentiveness of impression is not only a property of brain, but of all solid matter without exception.
From The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality by Gore, George
His retentiveness of memory, his accumulated weight of interested prejudice or romantic association have overlaid his other faculties.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William
Whereupon it suddenly occurred to me that as far as retentiveness of memory was concerned, Blanquette was not such a fool as in my arrogance I had set her down to be.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John
