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
Miss Hurd, whose feelings had not been in the least lacerated by the reference to her parent's notable eccentricity of retentiveness, but who had been amused at the suggestion, interposed.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy
What phrenologists would call the adhesiveness of Hazlitt's mind, its extreme retentiveness for any impression which has once been received, tempts him to a constant repetition of familiar phrases and illustrations.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
But the most remarkable thing through life was his memory, and its wonderful combination of retentiveness and readiness.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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 William Hazlitt
