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

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

Like many other people of powerful brains, she united strong and clear general retentiveness with a weak and untrustworthy verbal memory.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by Morley, John

Stevenson was always interested by his own retentiveness of memory for childish things, and here asks Cummy some questions to test the quality of hers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

One general factor in intelligence is therefore retentiveness.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.