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

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

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 Chambers, Robert

He has no reserve of discretion, no retentiveness of mind or check upon himself.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

As he was denied the use of books, even of the treatises which were the source of the charges, these answers manifest a wonderful retentiveness of memory and quickness and clearness of intellect.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles