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
The retentiveness of the popular memory, before it has been spoiled by education, is quite sufficient to-270- account for the preservation of these lyrics through several hundred years.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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 Henry Charles Lea
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 Caroline Lee Hentz
The error in the book first quoted from lies in the fact that its author looks upon a failing memory as indicating a loss of retentiveness.
From The Trained Memory Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
