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

Intricately or profoundly woven, they are held: disconnected, they tend to drop out just in proportion as the native brain retentiveness is poor.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

He had good natural abilities; but probably the one point in which he greatly exceeded the average of intelligent boys was his memory, which was of extraordinary retentiveness, and which he carefully cultivated.

From Historical and Political Essays by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

With a keen, bright intelligence, and remarkable retentiveness of memory, she mastered her studies with surprising quickness, and distanced all her competitors.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

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 James, William