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Retentiveness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the state of being retentive

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being retentive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The property of being retentive; specifically, in psychology, the capacity for retaining mental presentations: distinguished from memory, which implies certain relations existing among the presentations thus recorded. See memory.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the power of retaining and recalling past experience

n. the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired

n. the power of retaining liquid

Word Usage

"A better aphorism from him, which should be pinned to the wall of every management consultant's office, was "progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness"."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

acquisitiveness

Cross Reference

magnetic retentiveness

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