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Retentiveness

noun
1.
The power of retaining and recalling past experience.  Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity.
2.
The property of retaining possessions that have been acquired.  Synonym: retentivity.
3.
The power of retaining liquid.  Synonyms: retention, retentivity.





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"Retentiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... literature without dates or authors and that the growth of religion in India cannot be scientifically studied. The difficulties are indeed considerable but they are materially reduced by the veneration in which the ancient scriptures were held, and by the retentiveness of memory and devotion to grammar, if not to history, which have characterized the Brahmans for at least twenty-five centuries. The authenticity of certain Vedic texts is guaranteed not only by the quotations found in later works, but by treatises on phonetics, grammar and versification as well as ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot
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... more familiar with Shakespeare's text than many better scholars. His familiarity is proved by a habit of quotation of which it has been disputed whether it is a merit or a defect. 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. He has, too, a trick of working in patches of his old essays, which he expressly defends on the ground that a book ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
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... feelings had not been in the least lacerated by the reference to her parent's notable eccentricity of retentiveness, but who had been ...
— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble
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Words linked to "Retentiveness" :   impermeableness, anamnesis, remembrance, urinary retention, impermeability, retention, mental faculty, recollection, acquisitiveness, faculty, module, retentive


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