retentiveness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being retentive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

memory retention retentivity remembrance holding recognition keeping consciousness reflection recall remembering permeability recollection reminiscence anamnesis

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Antonyms

removal designation assignment allocation delegation eruption

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Hypernyms

faculty module impermeability impermeableness acquisitiveness mental faculty

Hyponyms

remembrance recollection anamnesis

Related terms

anal-retentiveness

Examples

Blackjack does possess a memory (the interdependence of the cards) and a conscience (inferior play will inevitably be penalized) and is not democratic (the mental agility and retentiveness of the player are significant factors). Richard Arnold Epstein

Interviewer: Everybody's always wondering about the anal retentiveness of the lyrics. Are you guys really into anal sex? Is that really a large part of your life? Dr. Heathen Scum: Only heterosexual anal sex. Steve Broy

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. George Santayana

he had a good memory when he was younger Source: Internet

moisture retentivity of soil Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

retentive retentive memory retentively retentivity retentor retentostat