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

Change in these conditions, then, will enable a person to make use of all the native retentiveness his nervous system has.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

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)

This gives what may be called the quality of native retentiveness to the individual.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

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