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 Kennedy, Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson)

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 Locke, William John

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

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 Hazlitt, William