retentiveness
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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
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 William John Locke
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 Warren Hilton
It needs cultivation, however, whether a boy be gifted with retentiveness or not.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
The great memory for facts which a Darwin or a Spencer reveal in their books is not incompatible with the possession on their part of a mind with only a middling degree of physiological retentiveness.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
